Google is modifying its approach to API usage (primarily Facebook’s) by establishing the principle of reciprocity, under penalty of a total block. What does it specifically mean that Google is blocking Facebook APIs?
How many users enter personal data online without fully realizing how it’s disseminated? To bring order to this vast amount of information that travels from one service to another, from a social network to a search engine, Google is changing course: stopping Facebook APIs and similar services.
Until today, Facebook has been able to regularly and easily access Google APIs related to data synchronization; the same cannot be said for Google, which, on the contrary, has never been able to automatically access the same information originating from Facebook.
Therefore, in the absence of such reciprocity, Google has decided to put a stop to the mechanism, blocking the APIs related to the Google Contacts Data API, thus preventing the synchronization of data from Gmail for export to Facebook.
The situation could change if Facebook decides to allow contact export outside of Facebook itself.
In practice, an arm wrestle has begun, with Google making the first move. Reactions from Facebook are anticipated, although, at the moment, the stance of closure in this regard is quite clear.
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