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

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Post by dewey »

hbn wrote: post #79
dewey wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> In what scenario would pulling in a friend's profile photo create a useful ad? Exactly in the scenario you just described. You still remember it and you are actively talking about it years after the fact.

Zero people in the process of creating that ad said "we'll suggest people date their siblings, it'll be so memorable" That is absolutely not a success story when trying to market a Christian dating platform.

It's about the "in which scenario" question of the OP, not this dating ad in particular.

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

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Post by rolph »

afavour wrote: post #57
ed_elliott_asc wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

print out a panagram of a head, and paste it to a lampshade, or use a mannequin head and describe how you were horribly burned as a child.

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

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Post by kuschkufan »

jadamson wrote: post #20
kuschkufan wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

did not think of that, maybe it's this. i tried a couple typos just now and holy shit most of these are registered and you land on some really dodgy shit, i.e. porn and sites that seem to try out browser exploits. did not find the scam site from earlier, but can't count it out either.

do not go to sites like xancel.com, xcancl.com, xcncl.com .. they are not safe. damn typoswatters.

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

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Post by subygan »

As horrible as it sounds.

For the median user, It really is impossible to have an alternative to instagram / whatsapp / facebook. It is so easy to live in a bubble and say I'll host my own things. but a totally different thing to have a functioning network effects machine.

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

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Post by jubilee33 »

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…

Yes, like immediately after they were beta on unsuspecting university students. Anyone with a Facebook in 2026, ...well we can't just say they deserve it because that is definitely (no sarcasm intended) blaming the victim. But sometimes it feels like, why does the Nigerian Prince scam keep working after 30 plus years? Do we have to sacrifice the weak and vulnerable to have any sense of freedom and creativity? I don't know honestly ...perhaps?

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

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Post by Groxx »

smalltorch wrote: post #23
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…

Those are incredible terms that no one read.

Almost literally every single social media site in the past ~15+ years has had those exact terms in it.

Everything you upload, almost everywhere, can be used by the site owners to do whatever they like for their own purposes (reselling is somewhat often excluded / non-transferrable). There are a handful of exceptions, but they're very much exceptions, not the normal rule.

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

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

Espressosaurus wrote: post #53
smalltorch wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

NoScript allows most of the modern web to work with selective whitelisting.

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

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Post by bcraven »

microgpt wrote: post #63

https://xcancel.com/venturetwins/status/2071277885646868536

"Damn, this is creepy level though & generally I’m all for ads knowing everything about me. Putting my wife’s profile pic in an ad is too much"

Presumably this reply is a joke?

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

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Post by giancarlostoro »

Amazing we live in an age where making a fake image of someone that looks realistic enough (and for a tiny thumbnail resolution to boot) with a company that makes arguably lesser used but somewhat frontier AI models, not using said models to make these ads less intrusive, whilst still making them feel slightly personalized.
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