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> They want your selfies for facial recognition in order to track you better across the web How on earth does facial recognition help with tracking someone across the web?
If you've uploaded photos of yourself on other services and those services have agreements among themselves to share each others' (anonymized?) data, then you can be tracked across services through, among other things, your photos.
Meta will nuke your Instagram account for basically anything, including for no reason at all. I have like 50 followers, 10 photos, and check my IG once every week or two - haven't posted anything in months. Meta has banned me twice for unspecified policy violations (both times I had to send them a selfie and got reinstated, and there was no way to ask a human what these policies were). I suspect they'll ban/unban me…
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It seems like it’s going to eventually have activitypub / mastodon support? I’m hoping I can just follow everyone from Threads in my existing mastodon app. (Or from the webui of the instance I use) Lots of instances are anti-meta integration. But imo the protocol is open specifically for this kinda thing. I don’t have to use Facebook’s garbage, but I can still get content from people who do.
It will only have activitypub/mastodon till it is the number 1 player... At that point, suddenly the activitypub feeds will start mysteriously getting unreliable/ratelimited and eventually support will be dropped and it'll be back to a silo. You only build the walls high after you have captured everyone...
Meta will nuke your Instagram account for basically anything, including for no reason at all. I have like 50 followers, 10 photos, and check my IG once every week or two - haven't posted anything in months. Meta has banned me twice for unspecified policy violations (both times I had to send them a selfie and got reinstated, and there was no way to ask a human what these policies were). I suspect they'll ban/unban me…
> Meta will nuke your Instagram account for basically anything Opened the app last week and had to click through an accept gate warning me if I keep using "Scraping tools" I'll lose my account. The only "scraping" I've been doing is copying the direct image links and posting them to slack and my bookmarking service a few times a month. Insane to me that they're red in the face threatening me to lose my account over h…
And there might be a person specific id in the link you get, which other people copying the image don't get.
For example edge did for a while scrap any link you visited with it, even if you logged out of exactly this feature, not running any heuristics about weather it might a a magic link and then skipping it and AFIK also not stripping query parameters (through it did respect robots.txt I think).
Similar a lot of apps do similar, sometimes not even respecting robots.txt.
Through in any case it's still Meta being rediculous, because it's a known issue and you can't fault your user for doing perfectly normal things in a world where even one of the major browsers behaves like malicious spyware wrt. urls/web scrapping without user explicit consent.
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I thought the quotes on the BBC article were quite revealing: > Mr Zuckerberg said keeping the platform "friendly... will ultimately be the key to its success". > But Mr Musk responded: "It is infinitely preferable to be attacked by strangers on Twitter, than indulge in the false happiness of hide-the-pain Instagram." If Threads is a fractionally less toxic version of Twitter, it’ll do quite well.
> If Threads is a fractionally less toxic version of Twitter, it’ll do quite well. It will eventually be equally as toxic. Twitter started in a calm setting until the ads, politics, outrage filled it up. Threads will have ads soon and will apply the same Instagram algorithms it had before to promote verified outrage. Trump is also on both Twitter and Threads. As long as he and other Instagram users are on Threads, th…
I don't know, I'm in Europe, I follow zero explicitly political people yet US politics dominates my Twitter feed. I don't get that on Instagram which is all I need to make the service more enjoyable and to feel less toxic than Twitter. The outrage town hall will of course continue on Threads, but hopefully with only those who are activley seeking it.
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> Meta will nuke your Instagram account for basically anything Opened the app last week and had to click through an accept gate warning me if I keep using "Scraping tools" I'll lose my account. The only "scraping" I've been doing is copying the direct image links and posting them to slack and my bookmarking service a few times a month. Insane to me that they're red in the face threatening me to lose my account over h…
Probably on of the tools you post it too _or posted it in_ runs a web-scrapper. And there might be a person specific id in the link you get, which other people copying the image don't get. For example edge did for a while scrap any link you visited with it, even if you logged out of exactly this feature, not running any heuristics about weather it might a a magic link and then skipping it and AFIK also not stripping…
This is how they know I'm doing it, each url seems to be custom generated for the specific view of the post from an account because they actually expire too eventually. But you know "scraping" is like sharing what? 15 image links off the walled garden a month?
Just think it's an insane amount of effort to go to for them to try to make the internet stop working like the internet.
Upsets me this is where we got to with image sharing vs the open and remix culture of pre-yahoo Tumblr.
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> Meta will nuke your Instagram account for basically anything Opened the app last week and had to click through an accept gate warning me if I keep using "Scraping tools" I'll lose my account. The only "scraping" I've been doing is copying the direct image links and posting them to slack and my bookmarking service a few times a month. Insane to me that they're red in the face threatening me to lose my account over h…
> Insane to me that they're red in the face threatening me to lose my account over having the audacity to just share a direct image link. > > Garbage service. As long as you(and others) keep using it, theres really no reason for them not to
I still can't believe it's app-only, that there's no desktop version. I refuse to wall off parts of the internet into silos that I have to enter through downloadable portals.
Hell I know someone who bought one of those Samsung foldable phones so that he could ditch his laptop.
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All other platforms allow users to block ads and other malware on its platform. iOS is the only one that is actively anti-hacker. That's the difference.
> iOS is the only one that is actively anti-hacker anti-hacker? I think on the hierarchical scale of hackers, people who download and deploy adblockers should be rated "script kiddy" :)
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I thought the quotes on the BBC article were quite revealing: > Mr Zuckerberg said keeping the platform "friendly... will ultimately be the key to its success". > But Mr Musk responded: "It is infinitely preferable to be attacked by strangers on Twitter, than indulge in the false happiness of hide-the-pain Instagram." If Threads is a fractionally less toxic version of Twitter, it’ll do quite well.
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Anything that's not the current American culture wars? The same things most people talk about in their lives when not throthing at the mouth on Twitter. (i.e. comedy, sports, tech, food, animals, jobs, cars, etc.)
And, of course, culture wars will still be discussed, but it doesn't need promoting to those not interested in arguing such things on social media.