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Instagram is incorporating users' photos in ads for Meta Glasses
- invalidusernam3 3mo ago"I'm uncomfortable" Should have read the terms and conditions
- onemoresoop 3mo agoWhat percentage of people read those? They’re even unitelligible to the layman.
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- Cthulhu_ 3mo agoDidn't Facebook do this years and years ago? Yes, 2013: https://mashable.com/archive/facebook-ads-photo#ggcKnNfAUaqy 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 permit a business or other entity to pay us to display your name and/or profile picture with your content or information, without any compensation to you. If you have selected a specific audience for your content or information, we will respect your choice when we use it. So it's not new. If you don't want this, delete your facebook account: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/dialog/delete-your-information/ https://www.facebook.com/privacy/dialog/delete-your-informat...
- pavel_lishin 3mo ago> 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!
- steve1977 3mo agoThis made me laugh and cry at the same time...
- pbhjpbhj 3mo agoTo be fair it seems like it should be equally valid in contract law.
- realusername 3mo agoBoth sounds kind of the same thing to me, a wall of text that nobody will read and each essentially saying "I have the right to do whatever I want"
- hmry 3mo agoI can confirm it works exactly as well as putting "everything belongs to its original owners, no copyright intended" in your youtube video description
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- smalltorch 3mo agoThose are incredible terms that no one read.
- acdha 3mo agoI 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.
- ThePowerOfFuet 3mo agohttps://xcancel.com/venturetwins/status/2071277885646868536 https://xcancel.com/venturetwins/status/2071277885646868536
- kuschkufan 3mo agoi 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=pop®form=1&on=Levorelio&icid=wh4e8rgkl7ut4mfjjnl4k6aa&traff=05ac29cc-39dc-44b6-b190-e0f4ba78e428&cmp=d030a405-eead-41cd-a478-ee6025b83018 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 caused xcancel to do this. never seen anythin like it before, would like to know more. btw any further reloads of the xcancel url to that tweet totally work as expected.
- pavel_lishin 3mo agoThrowing an additional anecdote into the bucket, this did not happen for me. Any chance you have a dodgy extension installed?
- jadamson 3mo agoSure you didn't just make a typo and hit a squatted domain?
- kuschkufan 3mo agodid 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.
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- hsuduebc2 3mo agoI mean, what would you expect from company with morality of tobacco and slot machines producer? This is the least evil they are doing. This thing resurface from time to time. It's the small text you never read. In this case, small part in ridiculously and intentionally big eula.
- avgDev 3mo agoI am surprised with the downvotes. Meta is the new tobacco corp.
- fullshark 3mo agoTen years ago maybe this causes outrage, but I'm not sure anyone cares in 2026 including potential customers.
- quadrature 3mo agoIs there actual proof that they are doing this. Theres not much to go on in the tweet.
- tantalor 3mo agoBesides the proof in the screenshot? What more do you want? Do you think this user is faking it?
- quadrature 3mo agoYes people frequently fake screenshots on social media. I'd want either a screenshot from a credible person, reporting from a journalist, trusted blogger, company statement etc.
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- tantalor 3mo agoI'm not a journalist, but I don't think a reporter would go much further than "one user said...". There is no need for fact checking an individual source, other than to verify the reporting is accurately representing what they said.
- quadrature 3mo agoA credible journalist would not entertain writing a story based on a screenshot some random user posts on social media.
- dabinat 3mo agoWell the company statement is that they say they can do this in their terms of service. It seems very plausible that Meta is doing what their TOS says they’re allowed to do.
- ryan42 3mo ago
- tantalor 3mo agoComment on that thread: > This seems entirely counter-productive and creepy. Apt description of Instagram in general.
- penr0se 3mo agoThis shouldn't really be surprising. It's very similar to what they did ~1.5 year ago when they started to use users' photos to promote Meta AI https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42615538 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42615538
- Zhyl 3mo agoThe XKCD for this exact scenario is 14 years old. https://xkcd.com/1150/ https://xkcd.com/1150/
- doublerabbit 3mo agoSome reason that strip doesn't load for me.
- fullshark 3mo agoKind of a stretch, these days can't imagine anyone that views instagram as a place to store their cherished photos also.
- jijijijij 3mo agoYeah, and then the charging businesses start selling your stuff anyway. So really, it's the comic creator, who is naive.
- RattlesnakeJake 3mo agoMany 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?
- dewey 3mo ago> 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.
- fumblebee 3mo agowouldn't "useful ad" imply either 1) clicking through and buying the product or service, or else 2) building up a positive brand association to help increase sales later? remembering an advert correlates but is different to it being valuable.
- svachalek 3mo agoYeah I remember some studies showed this with overly sexy ads. They were very memorable to the audience but all they remembered was hot chicks, they couldn't recall the product.
- RattlesnakeJake 3mo agoBut it didn't bring clicks to the website nor goodwill toward the company. No one remembers who ran the ad. Even if we did, it would only be in a negative light due to a weird and off-putting advertising approach.
- dewey 3mo agoDon't get hung up on this specific example of the dating ad. There's a difference between awareness campaigns and click / conversion campaigns and if there's some ads for a garden chair and your friend is sitting on it you'll definitely remember it more than some random model. Or clothes that are advertised on your body. Not saying that's the future we want, but it would definitely work for a while.
- srmatto 3mo agoIs 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 public facing website and perhaps a blog or email newsletter. Many small business in my region depend on Instagram for this purpose, its nearly universal. It helps keep you stuck in Instagram so that you can see a business' hours, menu, or special events. I guess a shell account is the answer but you're still going to have to navigate the skinner box feed.
- haliskerbas 3mo agoEvery time I try to create a shell account, it gets banned with no reason given. Even if it's just to follow a few influencer accounts.
- srmatto 3mo agoWell there you go, there is no reasonable way to be a non-participant while also staying up to date on businesses that choose to use the platform.
- cute_boi 3mo agoYou can't create shell account on fb/meta anymore. They will ask to turn on camera and rotate your head.
- ed_elliott_asc 3mo agoPrint out a face of someone on Facebook and use that?
- afavour 3mo agoIt’ll be obvious when you turn “their” head that it’s not real.
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- smalltorch 3mo agoI 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.
- Espressosaurus 3mo agoNo 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.
- kevin_thibedeau 3mo agoNoScript allows most of the modern web to work with selective whitelisting.
- DANmode 3mo agoSo, you - and others - read it? Almost no one - but not no one.
- cute_boi 3mo ago99% of people don't read terms and condition.
- DANmode 3mo agoWe’re saying the same thing.
- satvikpendem 3mo ago"No one" does not literally mean "not a single individual" in common English parlance, something that everyone (see what I did there?) here understands.
- ricardofranco 3mo agoSomething similar happened to me a few years ago. my photo was used in an ad, making it look like I was selling stuff and promoting a page I’d never even clicked on... absolutely mind-blowing....
- encomiast 3mo agoI feel like having an account on a Meta site is today’s equivalent of being a smoker.
- nicce 3mo agoThere isn't better analogy. I hope it spreads and we will see the same effect and social pressure as smokers faced.
- catlikesshrimp 3mo agoVaping is the new smoking. Except you knew what was inside a cigar, while vape liquid is a generic term for anything inside a bottle.
- busymom0 3mo agoAgreed. I rarely see smokers nowadays but I see a lot of vapers everywhere even including on public transit and kids.
- breezybottom 3mo agoBeing a smoker in the 1950s maybe.
- anon_shill 3mo agoAfter years off of it I got back on it because living in NYC it’s a lot easier to find and get invited to events in the arts if you’re on it. I wish it weren’t so. I hate every part of it that isn’t a utility.
- jimt1234 3mo agoI don't know what's worse - this, or all the ads/commercials for Meta Glasses featuring Kylie Jenner, like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yYQO8exxaU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yYQO8exxaU
- ThouYS 3mo agowhy 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
- literalAardvark 3mo agoThe surveillance glasses are nearing 3rd gen. You'd know that if you used social media /s
- nicechianti 3mo ago[dead]
- remywang 3mo agoJust stop using that cursed website
- fourside 3mo agoIt really is that simple. “Users of company with a long track record of unethical behavior surprised at the company’s latest unethical business decision.” I know it’s not easy for some to stop using their platform for some reason or another. That’s the point. When you use their product not because they are the best choice in a free market with options, but when you use it because you have to. Just don’t surprised when FB keeps pushing the limits.
- frollogaston 3mo agoMaybe they're not surprised, they just don't care
- cryo32 3mo agoYeah just done that. Hosed my Instagram account.
- rchaud 3mo agoEven if you don't use FB, pictures of you tagged by your friends are fair game.
- AuthAuth 3mo agoDont have friends, simple as
- microgpt 3mo agohttps://xcancel.com/venturetwins/status/2071277885646868536 https://xcancel.com/venturetwins/status/2071277885646868536
- bcraven 3mo ago"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?
- glimshe 3mo agoWhen you don't pay for the product... YOU are the product.
- VortexLain 3mo agoSometimes it seems like Black Mirror screenwriters work at Meta as a side hustle.
- halflife 3mo agoI actually find this incredible, since this highlights how desperate they are to advertise these glasses
- jmorenoamor 3mo agoWhy? Because they can, and they will. Leaving these services looks difficult or impossible, until you do it, and the world just keeps spinning.
- wartywhoa23 3mo agoIG users were the proverbial product on this free-to-partake vanity fair since its inception.
- subygan 3mo agoAs 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.
- giancarlostoro 3mo agoAmazing 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.
- red_admiral 3mo agoAs if Meta glasses weren't creepy enough already.
- mcmcmc 3mo agoAlways amusing when people discover they’re paying for free services with something other than money.
- ornornor 3mo agoCompany owned by a sociopath and which has proven time and time and time again that they have no regard for your privacy does it again. It’s good to keep talking about it so that there is still some friction attached to pulling this off for Meta, but if you’re surprised at this I don’t know what to tell you. Delete your social media and join the rest of us living free!
- croes 3mo agoHow much abuse are the users willing to take before the take action?
- fullshark 3mo agoPossibly unlimited so long as the hot and cool people are on the platform.
- hmokiguess 3mo ago> "The era of ultra personalized ads has begun" I think that's maybe a decade old by now if not more, a little late to the party I'd say
- blaqq2 3mo agoWell, 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.
- renegade-otter 3mo agoThe news here is that people are still using instagram.
- dewey 3mo agoThey 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.
- Anoian 3mo agoMeta glasses are basically for people who do not care about privacy so this ad promotes that brand perfectly. Its like designing bad email spam to only get the gullible leads and not the smart people who will smell foul play from miles away.
- zombot 3mo agoImportant reminder that you don't belong to yourself anymore when using these "services".