Couldn't agree more, not just because of the possible security implications, but also because it can seriously back-fire against you, in terms of potentially damaging your reputation.
A closely related example would be of a web app I stumbled upon recently via an unexpected email I received in my LinkedIn inbox about a new educational platform that supposedly one of my contacts was recommending me to try. Curious and suspicious, I opened the link and clicked on 'connect with LinkedIn'. In small script, the app was requiring me to authorize it to send emails on my behalf, which is exactly the case of the original unsolicited message I had received: another unsuspecting user just glossed over the terms and connected their LinkedIn account to this app....resulting in all of their contacts being spammed with the message. The 'victim' was displeased to say the least when I warned them what their account was doing without their knowledge.
Had I not been careful about that and proceeded to authorize the app, I would've most likely been booted off at least a few people's contact lists for spamming them with such stuff irrelevant to their interests.
A closely related example would be of a web app I stumbled upon recently via an unexpected email I received in my LinkedIn inbox about a new educational platform that supposedly one of my contacts was recommending me to try. Curious and suspicious, I opened the link and clicked on 'connect with LinkedIn'. In small script, the app was requiring me to authorize it to send emails on my behalf, which is exactly the case of the original unsolicited message I had received: another unsuspecting user just glossed over the terms and connected their LinkedIn account to this app....resulting in all of their contacts being spammed with the message. The 'victim' was displeased to say the least when I warned them what their account was doing without their knowledge.
Had I not been careful about that and proceeded to authorize the app, I would've most likely been booted off at least a few people's contact lists for spamming them with such stuff irrelevant to their interests.