Facebook created last week an official list of acceptable ad providers that developers can use to make money with their Facebook applications. Notably absent from the list is Google’s popular AdSense service, an omission that has developers on various forums up in arms. Also missing: Amazon.com, which offers an advertising API.Google and Amazon apparently didn’t make the list because they refused to sign on the dotted line of Facebook’s new and arguably restrictive terms of service for ad providers. In short, advertising providers are forbidden from receiving, directly or indirectly, any type of Facebook user data, even if a Facebook user consents to sharing it. Should any such data end up in an ad provider’s stores, the provider is required to alert Facebook immediately and purge said data.The list isn’t finalized, so it’s entirely possibly Google and Amazon will sign on. But given the recent spats between Google and Facebook over sharing user data as they fight to grab the most user eyeballs, it’s tough to predict who is going to blink first.As it stands, developers are expressing outrage that they’re no longer permitted to use AdSense and Amazon.

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