Facebooks crawls every page recorded by its tracking pixel

So yesterday we figured out that facebooks Facebot crawler will crawl _every_ url that was recorded by their tracking pixel.

I find this highly concerning since:

1. they are crawling potentially sensitive information granted by links with tokens

2. they are triggering potentially harmful and/or confusing actions in your website by repeating links

3. they are repeating requests in a broken way by not encoding url-parameters correctly, for instance url-encoded %2B ends up just as a "+" thus becoming a whitespace (same goes for slashes etc.)

4. I could not find a warning or note on their tracking-pixel documentation that pages tracked would be crawled later

from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2EtFSTb
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