Most aren't stupid enough to lose traffic from people refusing to install their app so if you hit "No" or "Close" most will redirect you to the article anyway. The alternative is to set it to "only me" in the dropdown on who can see what you read.
OP here. Actually, if you hit No or Close, none of these apps will redirect you to the article. Not possible with Facebook's current implementation. I know because I've worked on one of these Open Graph apps for The Duke Chronicle.
Only possibilities are, when the user clicks the link, to either bring them straight to the article, or ask them to install the app and if they hit "Yes," bring them to the article. Not possible to show the install app dialog box but not force an install in order to be redirected to the article. I wish it was though!
In terms of setting it to "only me" for sharing, yes that definitely works. But you're still giving the app read access to some of your Facebook info, and many users won't even think to change the setting to "only me" unfortunately.
The Guardian app (possibly UK only...not sure) redirects directly to the article if you click No and then remembers that you did that and redirects you directly from then on. Definitely the best implementation I've seen but I don't know the details about exactly how they did it.
As mentioned by sdcooke the Guardian allows you to click "no" and view the article anyway, there are a few others (I believe Yahoo) but I've not clicked on any in a few days so I don't recall which exactly. Maybe it's a country specific implementation, I'm in the UK.
Interesting...I certainly could be wrong or the functionality may have changed since I last looked in to it. I do know for a fact that when I click "no" on the Yahoo links it brings me back to Facebook, not the article. I'm in the US.
I've implemented the Open Graph for Pipe Dream, my college newspaper. I'd love to find out how it's working for the Chronicle! You can reach me at doconnor@bupd.me.
