The XKCD for this exact scenario is 14 years old.
Instagram is incorporating users' photos in ads for Meta Glasses
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Re: Instagram is incorporating users' photos in ads for Meta Glasses
#12The XKCD for this exact scenario is 14 years old. https://xkcd.com/1150/
Some reason that strip doesn't load for me.
Re: Instagram is incorporating users' photos in ads for Meta Glasses
#13Didn't Facebook do this years and years ago? Yes, 2013: https://mashable.com/archive/facebook-ads-photo#ggcKnNfAUaqy > According to Facebook's Statement of Rights and Responsibilities: > You give us permission to use your name, profile picture, content, and information in connection with commercial, sponsored, or related content (such as a brand you like) served or enhanced by us. This means, for example, that you pe…
> If you don't want this, delete your facebook account
What? I thought I could just paste a paragraph of all-caps legalese to my profile, and it would solve this!
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#14Is there actual proof that they are doing this. Theres not much to go on in the tweet.
yes, it happened to me recently.
The photo wasn't mine, but showed a profile photo of one of my facebook friends, and it had the glasses and said "On my way!"
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#15https://xcancel.com/venturetwins/status/2071277885646868536
i edited it to the same url before opening as i usually do for twitter urls so that i can see the full conversation without being logged into twitter. for some reason the url rewrote iteself to this: https://themenspiegel.click/c/de/52_merzchrupalla/?method=po... which is a german language scam site. i have no explanation how this happened, whether it is xcancel.com doing this or something loaded from twitter that ca…
Throwing an additional anecdote into the bucket, this did not happen for me. Any chance you have a dodgy extension installed?
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#16The XKCD for this exact scenario is 14 years old. https://xkcd.com/1150/
Kind of a stretch, these days can't imagine anyone that views instagram as a place to store their cherished photos also.
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#17Many years ago (back when Facebook still had sidebar ads), my sister was presented with a dating ad for "Hot Christian Singles" accompanied by a photo of our brother.
It was hilarious, but also mind-boggling. In what scenario would pulling in a friend's profile photo create a useful ad?
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#18Didn't Facebook do this years and years ago? Yes, 2013: https://mashable.com/archive/facebook-ads-photo#ggcKnNfAUaqy > According to Facebook's Statement of Rights and Responsibilities: > You give us permission to use your name, profile picture, content, and information in connection with commercial, sponsored, or related content (such as a brand you like) served or enhanced by us. This means, for example, that you pe…
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#19Is there actual proof that they are doing this. Theres not much to go on in the tweet.
And they have a history of doing this. And their privacy/ToS allows it.
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#20https://xcancel.com/venturetwins/status/2071277885646868536
i edited it to the same url before opening as i usually do for twitter urls so that i can see the full conversation without being logged into twitter. for some reason the url rewrote iteself to this: https://themenspiegel.click/c/de/52_merzchrupalla/?method=po... which is a german language scam site. i have no explanation how this happened, whether it is xcancel.com doing this or something loaded from twitter that ca…
Sure you didn't just make a typo and hit a squatted domain?