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Re: Show HN: Textile – Return Facebook photo exports back to nicely-named galleries

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Post by Symbiote »

djangowithme wrote: post #9

After hearing people talk about finding very personal things in their archive like audio recordings, I tried downloading mine. I was almost disappointed to find that it essentially just outputted my public facebook profile. Nothing remotely unusual about the data, but i'm sure there's much more that they wont admit to or hand over.

I wondered about that.

Facebook know what I visit a site with an embedded tracker. This isn't in my data dump, but things like "interest in X" are. Do they really use the tracking to influence those scores, then throw away the data?

Re: Show HN: Textile – Return Facebook photo exports back to nicely-named galleries

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Post by fimdomeio »

Wow... So people who have issues with how facebook handles privacy should dump their data in some other third party service? And probably some people will because well... "dumb f*s".

Well it might actually be all good intentions (probably just read below is all client side readable code) but if non coders use this service it just means they learned nothing.

Re: Show HN: Textile – Return Facebook photo exports back to nicely-named galleries

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Post by rootlocus »

fimdomeio wrote: post #52

Wow... So people who have issues with how facebook handles privacy should dump their data in some other third party service? And probably some people will because well... "dumb f *s". Well it might actually be all good intentions (probably just read below is all client side readable code) but if non coders use this service it just means they learned nothing.

> All the data processing happens right in your browser. Your photos will be reorganized without ever being sent off of your device, your data remains yours :)

Don't know how exactly that works, though.

Re: Show HN: Textile – Return Facebook photo exports back to nicely-named galleries

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Post by forcer »

andrewxhill wrote: post #39
gk1 wrote: post #37

Not working for me. The output is the same as the input. Any ideas?

Very odd. If you drag the zip onto your laptop and the drop event listener doesn't pick up on it, your browser would likely just "download" the zip you dropped. Which explains what you see I'm guessing. What I'm not sure about is why the JS doesn't pick up on the drop event and process the file. Do you have any settings that would block JS? What browser are you using?

I tried in latest versions of FF and CH and it does not work (on Windows10). When I drag the ZIP archive to the area it does not do anything. Do all people just try on MAC or why it does not work for me?

Re: Show HN: Textile – Return Facebook photo exports back to nicely-named galleries

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Post by chatmasta »

If a social network wants to take over for Facebook, an “import your data from your Facebook export” tool would be a killer growth hack.

Also, there’s really no reason Facebook couldn’t organize photos this already. I feel like they make that data dump as obfuscated as possible to discourage you from doing anything useful with it.

Re: Show HN: Textile – Return Facebook photo exports back to nicely-named galleries

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Post by notimetorelax »

chatmasta wrote: post #55

If a social network wants to take over for Facebook, an “import your data from your Facebook export” tool would be a killer growth hack. Also, there’s really no reason Facebook couldn’t organize photos this already. I feel like they make that data dump as obfuscated as possible to discourage you from doing anything useful with it.

I actually thought that they went much further then they were required with the exports. I know of services that dump RAW JSON archives.

Re: Show HN: Textile – Return Facebook photo exports back to nicely-named galleries

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Post by edjw »

chatmasta wrote: post #55

If a social network wants to take over for Facebook, an “import your data from your Facebook export” tool would be a killer growth hack. Also, there’s really no reason Facebook couldn’t organize photos this already. I feel like they make that data dump as obfuscated as possible to discourage you from doing anything useful with it.

Absolutely. One of the big issues with GDPR is going to be how to practically use the right to port your data. Export functionality is one thing. It's the import bit that's often not there or isn't practical. Some standards would help.

Re: Show HN: Textile – Return Facebook photo exports back to nicely-named galleries

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Post by crtasm »

Symbiote wrote: post #51
djangowithme wrote: post #9

After hearing people talk about finding very personal things in their archive like audio recordings, I tried downloading mine. I was almost disappointed to find that it essentially just outputted my public facebook profile. Nothing remotely unusual about the data, but i'm sure there's much more that they wont admit to or hand over.

I wondered about that. Facebook know what I visit a site with an embedded tracker. This isn't in my data dump, but things like "interest in X" are. Do they really use the tracking to influence those scores, then throw away the data?

I'd assume they keep every ping from the tracker but simply class it as "their" data instead of "your" data.
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