Just stop using that cursed website
Even if you don't use FB, pictures of you tagged by your friends are fair game.
Instagram is incorporating users' photos in ads for Meta Glasses
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There isn't better analogy. I hope it spreads and we will see the same effect and social pressure as smokers faced.
Vaping is the new smoking. Except you knew what was inside a cigar, while vape liquid is a generic term for anything inside a bottle.
Agreed. I rarely see smokers nowadays but I see a lot of vapers everywhere even including on public transit and kids.
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#123Well, that took a dark turn. At this point, no one should be surprised. They've churned out a lot of movies with this plot; it was always going to happen.
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#124Re: Instagram is incorporating users' photos in ads for Meta Glasses
#125Many 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?
> 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.
They're married now, too.
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#126The news here is that people are still using instagram.
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
HN maybe?
HN terms: "By uploading any User Content you hereby grant and will grant Y Combinator and its affiliated companies a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty free, fully paid up, transferable, sublicensable, perpetual, irrevocable license to copy, display, upload, perform, distribute, store, modify and otherwise use your User Content for any Y Combinator-related purpose in any form, medium or technology now known or later de…
Sites need to include this language to protect themselves from malicious law suits. But they don’t need to actually do stupid, disrespectful stuff with that power.
Remember the Zuck quote when asked why people gave him their data: “they trust me, dumb f*cks”.
When someone shows you who they are, trust them. He should be banned from having user data.
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#128The news here is that people are still using instagram.
They have two billion monthly active users worldwide. There's many parts of this world that run on Meta (WhatsApp / Instagram) for things from government communication to every business only having IG pages or doing business through it.
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Those are incredible terms that no one read.
I cancelled my Instagram account when they added those terms in the early 2010s. At the time it was mostly photographers reading them and closing accounts but it wasn’t exactly a secret.
I get sad because people liked Insta pre-Zuckerberg. Like, it was growing. People seem to couch it in terms of "They had 12 employees. They weren't going anywhere". But they were. Zuckerberg just wanted to enlargen his war chest
I refuse to sign up for an Insta. I will not acquiesce to 'lol we're going to put a login wall on every page'
Re: Instagram is incorporating users' photos in ads for Meta Glasses
#130Many 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?
I could see people clicking through to see if their friend had a dating profile, if not for the romantic interest the gossip interest.
Okay, this may actually explain it XD