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Re: Want your images back? That'll be $5

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Post by echoangle »

Hnrobert42 wrote: post #16
petcat wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aren't they only required to delete the data on request? They don't have to actually provide it back to you

IANAL. Article 15 says you have the right to request the data and they must provide it to you. Article 20 says you have the right to get your photos back in a machine readable format. Sadly, this only applies to those in the EU. Americans can keep taking it, which makes sense as it's an American company that's giving it. Sigh.

Honestly I would just try doing a GDPR request and see what happens. They first have to find out if you’re from the EU, and they probably will err on the side of caution and just fulfill it.

Re: Want your images back? That'll be $5

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Post by mannanj »

There’s a emphasis and repetition of sound bites and empty words in our culture, as though they mean something clear and understandable though it’s really a sound bite and a phrase to ease your discomfort and help you feel better about yourself: corporate greed is one of those words.

There is no such thing as a corporation being conscious or taking a will of its own and choosing to be greedy. It’s just a symbol to represent humans being greedy. Let’s call it what it is: it’s human leaders and bourgeois people being greedy. I don’t find it honest when we continue to use inaccurate phrases in this deceptive manner since we don’t want to look at the situation for what it really is. Or assume our responsibility in the matter.

We’ve allowed this greed by tolerating it, interacting with the humans (or not) and pretending the reality isn’t what it is. What is complaining and stopping there asking about it? Surely we can do more than just make an internet article about it and think it will change.

Re: Want your images back? That'll be $5

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Post by lutr »

hamburgererror wrote: post #29

Why store "childhood memories" on an online service though? Those websites get hacked all the time, you're lucky if your privates pictures don't endup in the wrong hands...

Ah, no, by "childhood memories" I meant like whatever I was screnshotting as a kid. Believe it or not, but finding old screenshots like 10 years later is sooo sweet!

For my actual chilhood photos, I'm using a little self-hosted Immich that's nicely backed up as well. Hoping that doesn't get hacked!

Re: Want your images back? That'll be $5

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Post by uberex »

trwhite wrote: post #26
lutr wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, makes sense. I think it's just a little honeypot for fools that don't do their research. 1 prompt to Claude would have saved me the pain, probably. ("Research" isn't even that hard nowadays!)

Or maybe... you know... read

the whole part about dark patterns is to be technically not doing the asshole thing while getting most people to fall for it.

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Post by pixl97 »

mannanj wrote: post #32

There’s a emphasis and repetition of sound bites and empty words in our culture, as though they mean something clear and understandable though it’s really a sound bite and a phrase to ease your discomfort and help you feel better about yourself: corporate greed is one of those words. There is no such thing as a corporation being conscious or taking a will of its own and choosing to be greedy. It’s just a symbol to re…

Tolerating it? No! Greed is good. We've grown this monster from a pup and now it's all grown up and eating people.

Re: Want your images back? That'll be $5

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Post by uberex »

lutr wrote: post #10
equinoxnemesis wrote: post #5

Considering they explicitly said they had some photos of yours ("You shared them. We protected them."), this seems like chargeback territory.

Right?? I mean again, I could have gotten a refund in 48 hours, per the smallprint... But I noticed it about ~3 months too late, while writing about this. But it's okay. Getting those $5 back would make Photobucket look slightly better in my mind, and I don't want that.

You can charge back months after. Best to ask for refund first (as in now, despite their legally irrelevant time limit) as the CC would expect you to do that first.

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Post by sneak »

equinoxnemesis wrote: post #5

Considering they explicitly said they had some photos of yours ("You shared them. We protected them."), this seems like chargeback territory.

The ToS is what binds. Good luck getting most card companies to allow you to do a chargeback these days.

I’ve been sold counterfeit or defective merchandise on eBay thrice in the last year. eBay’s guarantees are totally worthless even with evidence, and it was like pulling teeth to get my bank to do a chargeback. In one case they wouldn’t at all.

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