Why do they put this data in the alt-tag in human readable format? For what purpose or use? SEO on a personalized platform with very limited access by Googlebot? Just to show they can? It makes no sense to me.
Facebook’s image outage reveals how the company’s AI tags your photos
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#32Why do they put this data in the alt-tag in human readable format? For what purpose or use? SEO on a personalized platform with very limited access by Googlebot? Just to show they can? It makes no sense to me.
For accessibility?
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#34Why do they put this data in the alt-tag in human readable format? For what purpose or use? SEO on a personalized platform with very limited access by Googlebot? Just to show they can? It makes no sense to me.
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#35Lots of comments about how this isn’t new, or how it’s related to accessibility. The article mentions all this. That’s not what the story is. It’s not a very deep story, but I don’t think it’s quite so trivial as is being suggested. The story is about this info being exposed to users just browsing the site, and the reaction that elicits. Someone seeing the tags inline in their feed by a glitch will tend to have a ver…
I agree with your point entirely but I wonder if more people outside of tech would care if only they understood what these companies were doing with their personal data.
Yes I believe the number of users on facebook would drop incredibly quickly
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#36Why do they put this data in the alt-tag in human readable format? For what purpose or use? SEO on a personalized platform with very limited access by Googlebot? Just to show they can? It makes no sense to me.
For accessibility?
I'd be surprised if they even care about that, but who knows, it's a possibility
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#37Lots of comments about how this isn’t new, or how it’s related to accessibility. The article mentions all this. That’s not what the story is. It’s not a very deep story, but I don’t think it’s quite so trivial as is being suggested. The story is about this info being exposed to users just browsing the site, and the reaction that elicits. Someone seeing the tags inline in their feed by a glitch will tend to have a ver…
That is an incredibly charitable interpretation of the word "reveal" in the headline. Every piece of information can be "revealed" to someone by that definition, it's happening all the time, and it wouldn't be a newsworthy event.
"Reveal" means to show something that was previously hidden from view - what has happened here is pretty much the textbook definition of the word.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
For accessibility?
I'd be surprised if they even care about that, but who knows, it's a possibility
It's a legal requirement in some parts of the world. Oh, and it means a bigger potential userbase for them. Plus it's just generally an all-round considerate thing to do.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
For accessibility?
I'd be surprised if they even care about that, but who knows, it's a possibility
Why would you be surprised? They put in effort for their iOS apps to work properly (and the alt-text tags are used for Instagram in "blind mode" for example).
If you're a company that wants personal data from everyone, you want personal data from everyone.
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#40You could also see this if you viewed source when it was fully working, of course. And occasionally before images loaded in if you were on a slow connection. I don't think it's any great secret, but still interesting to see.
I mean, journalists could also see this if they employed people with disabilities that required them to use such accessibility features. Considering it took an outage to show them I'm guessing few to zero companies do.