Facebook and Gmail’s Dispute Over Your Contacts’ Details Has Got Dirtier [Facebook]

Google allows its users to download their data for exporting elsewhere. But after their tough stance against Facebook not sharing its own data, they blocked that option. Facebook’s cleverly circumnavigated the block, meaning Gmail users can still find friends there.

It’s a gigantic power struggle, and one who won’t end prettily. Google could attempt to patch up the opening which Facebook has taken good thing about, where users can download their details from Gmail and upload the file to Facebook using an instantaneous deep link-but an engineer who spoke to TechCrunch in regards to the tech specifics said while it’s easy, it ” might fuck up other CSV flows.”

Whatever happens next, I’m willing to bet it’s going to make for extremely interesting watching from the sidelines. But good luck to Gmail users who are yet to join to Facebook-and yet to import their contacts list over there. [ TechCrunch ]

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