[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #50861: Remove Facebook and Instagram as an oEmbed Source

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#50861: Remove Facebook and Instagram as an oEmbed Source
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 Reporter:  whyisjake                 |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  task (blessed)            |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal                    |   Milestone:  5.5.1
Component:  Embeds                    |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                    |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  good-first-bug has-patch  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by mkaz):

 @davisshaver Thank you for your considerate comment. I'll try to address
 each below, but the short of it  is that the change is going to happen on
 Oct 24.

 A couple of us did have a discussion with Facebook as they reached out. It
 is a new company policy that all API requested are authenticated by Oct
 24. This is also in their announcement post
 https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2020/08/04/Introducing-graph-v8
 -marketing-api-v8. The date and change in policy do not seem negotiable.

 I agree that oEmbed is a great feature and should be open, not requiring
 authentication, regardless, it is not our API to decide. I think the only
 real issue would be Facebook using the "oEmbed" name to describe the
 endpoints when they are not indeed open, but that is more a quibble and
 doesn't change much of anything.

 Lastly, I do work for Automattic and thus have some insight to
 WordPress.com and VIP. I believe they will be creating and offering a
 solution to their customers. However, I'm not working directly on that,
 and this isn't really the place to promote.

 We did suggest to Facebook to reach out and talk to all major hosts prior
 to help reduce the impact.

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