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Re: Instagram is incorporating users' photos in ads for Meta Glasses

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Post by literalAardvark »

ThouYS wrote: post #41

why are people using these products exactly? signing away their rights to their photos? making psychopaths filthy rich? if the surveillance glasses are coming, these people will also have signed away the commons, which are not theirs to give away

The surveillance glasses are nearing 3rd gen.

You'd know that if you used social media /s

Re: Instagram is incorporating users' photos in ads for Meta Glasses

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Post by Espressosaurus »

smalltorch wrote: post #28
DANmode wrote: post #26

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I mean, I read them, but just goes to show the majority of people skipped this important reading. If anyone actually read them it's typically a unlimited unrestricted pipe of data they can use for anything.

No one reads the terms and conditions. I went to a resort and read the T&C they made you sign to sign in and was told I was the only person in months who had actually done so.

And even I have mostly given up on the website T&C because most of them are so lengthy, a lot like I've given up on disabling javascript since the modern web frequently won't even render anything if you disable it.

Re: Instagram is incorporating users' photos in ads for Meta Glasses

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Post by rootusrootus »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #2

Didn'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 have selected a specific audience for your content or information, we will respect your choice when we use it.

To be fair, if they actually honor this promise, and if it means what it sounds like in plain English -- i.e. that if you only posted your photo for friends, only friends can ever see it even if FB uses it for advertising -- that is a halfway decent mitigation of the issue. Not ideal, but then again, you're not paying for FB, so what did you really expect?

Re: Instagram is incorporating users' photos in ads for Meta Glasses

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Post by PyWoody »

RattlesnakeJake wrote: post #17

Many 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?

Roll tide.

Re: Instagram is incorporating users' photos in ads for Meta Glasses

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Post by afavour »

ed_elliott_asc wrote: post #44
cute_boi wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can't create shell account on fb/meta anymore. They will ask to turn on camera and rotate your head.

Print out a face of someone on Facebook and use that?

It’ll be obvious when you turn “their” head that it’s not real.

Re: Instagram is incorporating users' photos in ads for Meta Glasses

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Post by plagiarist »

srmatto wrote: post #25

Is Meta abusing its users a problem? Yes. Does the TOS allow for it? Yes. Can people decide to just create a shell account and not actually participate? Sure. One of the real insidious problems with Instagram and to some extent Facebook is that they provide a free, low friction way for business to communicate with current or potential customers. As a result many small businesses use Instagram as replacement for a pub…

If the only way to interact with a business is via Facebook or Instagram, I don't interact with the business.

Unfortunately this is more of a problem for me than it is for them. I hope my position on this becomes more popular over time so that everyone can stop using spy- and adware.

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Post by microgpt »

rootusrootus wrote: post #54
Cthulhu_ wrote: post #2

Didn'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 have selected a specific audience for your content or information, we will respect your choice when we use it. To be fair, if they actually honor this promise, and if it means what it sounds like in plain English -- i.e. that if you only posted your photo for friends, only friends can ever see it even if FB uses it for advertising -- that is a halfway decent mitigation of the issue. Not ideal, but then again…

"respect your choice" sounds like it means something but doesn't mean something.
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