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Facebook public_profile is enough to get friends' names and scores?

Hi, I switched from the Facebook score API (now depreciated) to Playfab and love it. Feels really streamlined - and it works.

My question is I use FB.LogInWithReadPermissions to login with "public_profile" as the only permission in the list. When I call PlayFabClientAPI.GetFriendLeaderboard I am able to get the scores of friends (test accounts made in Facebook developer).

My question is it seems Playfab only needs to ask for "public_profile" to get friends' names and scores stored in the playfab leaderboard - is this correct? It doesn't need to ask for the Fb "user_friends" permission in FB.LogInWithReadPermissions?

I ask because Facebook is now asking me to update my app review if I want to ask for "user_friends". Any clarification is greatly appreciated.

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The public profile info is needed to be able to get us the basic ID info we need for sign-in. It's possible that the user's friends list might be returned if all you have set is public_profile in some circumstances, but I wouldn't risk it. I'd make sure to specify user_friends, since that's specifically what they define that permissions to be (allow for query of the user's friends list).

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ok thanks, better to not risk it I guess

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