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You're right that sucks. But if you think about it it's probably more of a technical issue than evil policy, just imagine the permission graph for visiting one
by dreamux 15y ago
You're right that sucks. But if you think about it it's probably more of a technical issue than evil policy, just imagine the permission graph for visiting one of your friend's profiles -- FB would have to do a reverse lookup of all of you friend's friends and filter ones with closed photo sharing (or what if you are a friend common to both?). Further, scaling that out to 750M people is non-trivial.
Anyways, I'm not excusing their policy, but I expect they'll fix it whenever it is technically possible to do so.
- eftpotrm 15y agoNo, it's not significantly more difficult than the existing case. You have one permissions set - my permissions on my photos. And another permissions set - my friends' visibility sets on their tagging. The display set is the interaction between these two sets, which any database developer should be trivially able to calculate. I don't for one minute dispute that the scaling issues for calculating these interactions for 750m users are significant, but the core task definitely isn't.