Search Explore

  • Cthulhu_ · 9 days ago

    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 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-informat...

    • pavel_lishin · 9 days 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 · 9 days ago

        This made me laugh and cry at the same time...

        • pbhjpbhj · 9 days ago

          To be fair it seems like it should be equally valid in contract law.

          • realusername · 9 days ago

            Both 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 · 9 days ago

              I can confirm it works exactly as well as putting "everything belongs to its original owners, no copyright intended" in your youtube video description

            • smalltorch · 9 days ago

              Those are incredible terms that no one read.

              • acdha · 9 days ago

                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.

                • alex1138 · 9 days ago

                  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'

                • Groxx · 9 days ago

                  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.

                  • greggsy · 9 days ago

                    HN maybe?

                    • victorbjorklund · 9 days ago

                      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 developed."

                      • digitaltrees · 9 days ago

                        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.

                        • endofreach · 9 days ago

                          > Sites need to include this language to protect themselves from malicious law suits

                          No, they do not. They do need to have people believe they do need to.

                      • DANmode · 9 days ago

                        [flagged]

                        • AlienRobot · 9 days ago

                          Do you really expect us to read the terms of service of the service we use?!

                          • iinnPP · 9 days ago

                            If you want to complain afterwards, yes.

                            • bluefirebrand · 9 days ago

                              I would suggest that the services expect that we don't, which is why they are comfortable putting absolutely anything they want in the terms

                    • rootusrootus · 9 days ago

                      > 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?

                      • microgpt · 9 days ago

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

                        • bryanrasmussen · 9 days ago

                          respect your choice may mean something if a court decides.

                        • fweimer · 9 days ago

                          I think you got it backwards. Wouldn't it be way worse if they used your likeness for advertising to your friends? Compared to random people who don't know you?

                        • vee-kay · 9 days ago

                          FYI, Meta earns billions by showing scam ads.

                          https://qz.com/consumer-federation-america-sues-meta-scam-ad...

                          https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortu...

                          It is unlikely that Meta will suddenly gain morals scruples to avoid profiting from user content, with or without user consent.

                          This is the same company that invasively spies on its own employees, to train AI models.

                          https://www.wired.com/story/meta-accidentally-let-employees-...

                          Meta — the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp — has a long history of abusing user trust. It has been fined billions for illegal activities like unauthorised data harvesting (Cambridge Analytica), illegal facial recognition, and mishandling children’s private information. Beyond what’s illegal, Meta is ethically notorious for emotional manipulation experiments, addictive design targeted at teenagers, rampant surveillance (even of non-users), promoting misinformation, and ignoring research that shows its products harm mental health.

                          https://leehopkins.com/meta-data-abuse-revealed/

                          • jubilee33 · 9 days ago

                            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?

                            • bryanrasmussen · 9 days ago

                              I wonder if terms and conditions vary between jurisdictions. I would guess so.

                              • Xunjin · 9 days ago

                                They can definitely be questioned in courts.

                                • bryanrasmussen · 9 days ago

                                  Yes, but let us suppose I am a big company.

                                  I have lawyers make up terms and conditions that are really great for me, but which might cause real problems in some specific jurisdiction. Do I serve two terms and conditions or just one and hope I don't get in trouble.

                                  I think once I'm big enough and have expensive lawyers might as well craft the terms appropriate to areas.

                                  But now gets tricky in area A I can say "We have the right to change these terms and conditions unilaterally at any time we wish and you will be bound by the new conditions"

                                  Now someone in area A moves to area B where terms and conditions are not as great for my company, and where you are not allowed to change terms and conditions unilaterally. Maybe I change terms for A to B immediately when they move to B so I don't get problems. But now they move out of B back to A, I probably have to ask them to agree to A conditions again.

                                  Anyway, it is funny wondering just how nefarious these companies are with the terms and conditions.

                              • like_any_other · 9 days ago

                                > If you don't want this, delete your facebook account

                                All that will happen is this term or similar will appear in some other "contract" of adhesion. Your bank? Your motherboard's EULA? Paypal or LLM vendor terms? Your phone OS/ISP? Your car? Anywhere and everywhere where some necessity of modern life is provided by a faceless multinational corporation.

                                If you don't want this, organize and lobby against it politically. That's what corporations do when they want to screw us over, and it's working great for them. Is the act-as-an-isolated-mere-consumer approach working great for us?

                                • PakG1 · 9 days ago

                                  I understand that I give them permission. That's partly why I'm not a producer of content on those platforms, though I'll consume now and then. But I'll rarely produce text (other than usually a happy birthday now and then), and I'll never produce photos.

                                  But what about the people in my photographs, whether on purpose or not? Did they give permission? That's the part that Meta doesn't really want to address.

                                  • slumberlust · 9 days ago

                                    If car mfgs can engross passengers in ToS they may never see; I'd guess yes. At least until someone challenges it.

                                  • rrgok · 9 days ago

                                    I give you the permission, but license cost for using my things is 30% of the revenue.

                                    • cwillu · 9 days ago

                                      Funny, because I got a payout last year from facebook settling a class action suit about their use of my and others' likeness in their fucking sponsored stories.

                                      • kuschkufan · 9 days ago

                                        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 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 · 9 days ago

                                          Throwing an additional anecdote into the bucket, this did not happen for me. Any chance you have a dodgy extension installed?

                                          • jadamson · 9 days ago

                                            Sure you didn't just make a typo and hit a squatted domain?

                                            • kuschkufan · 9 days ago

                                              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.

                                            • jijijijij · 9 days ago

                                              Doubt. xcancel.com does not even seem to have any advertisements at all, when I disable ublock. Site seems remarkable clean, no thirdparty connections apart from a cdn. Sure you didn't type cancelx.com? Cause there something shady is going on. Otherwise, I would strongly suggest checking your extensions or system for malware.

                                          • hsuduebc2 · 9 days ago

                                            I 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 · 9 days ago

                                              I am surprised with the downvotes. Meta is the new tobacco corp.

                                            • fullshark · 9 days ago

                                              Ten years ago maybe this causes outrage, but I'm not sure anyone cares in 2026 including potential customers.

                                              • quadrature · 9 days ago

                                                Is there actual proof that they are doing this. Theres not much to go on in the tweet.

                                                • tantalor · 9 days ago

                                                  Besides the proof in the screenshot? What more do you want?

                                                  Do you think this user is faking it?

                                                  • quadrature · 9 days ago

                                                    Yes 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.

                                                    • tantalor · 9 days ago

                                                      I'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 · 9 days ago

                                                        A credible journalist would not entertain writing a story based on a screenshot some random user posts on social media.

                                                      • dabinat · 9 days ago

                                                        Well 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 · 9 days ago

                                                      yes, it happened to me recently.

                                                      The photo wasn't mine, but showed a profile photo of one of my facebook friends, and it had the glasses and said "On my way!"

                                                      • edoceo · 9 days ago

                                                        And they have a history of doing this. And their privacy/ToS allows it.

                                                      • tantalor · 9 days ago

                                                        Comment on that thread:

                                                        > This seems entirely counter-productive and creepy.

                                                        Apt description of Instagram in general.

                                                            • doublerabbit · 9 days ago

                                                              Some reason that strip doesn't load for me.

                                                              • nicce · 9 days ago

                                                                It is just saying that if you don't pay for something, you are the product. I think it still fits well here.

                                                                • alex1138 · 9 days ago

                                                                  You can pay for Meta Verified. I think you'll still get banned

                                                                  I'm getting very tired of this trope. Businesses need to do better. End of story

                                                              • fullshark · 9 days ago

                                                                Kind of a stretch, these days can't imagine anyone that views instagram as a place to store their cherished photos also.

                                                                • jijijijij · 9 days ago

                                                                  Yeah, and then the charging businesses start selling your stuff anyway. So really, it's the comic creator, who is naive.

                                                                • RattlesnakeJake · 9 days ago

                                                                  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?

                                                                  • dewey · 9 days 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 · 9 days ago

                                                                      wouldn'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 · 9 days ago

                                                                        Yeah 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 · 9 days ago

                                                                        But 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 · 9 days ago

                                                                          Don'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.

                                                                          • RattlesnakeJake · 9 days ago

                                                                            That doesn't come across as any less creepy to the average user: "They stole my friend's likeness to sell me a lawn chair" still feels slimy.

                                                                            I'm sure the real reason is that Facebook added a poorly thought out feature to their marketing tools around that time, and someone just decided to try it out.

                                                                            • godwinson__4-8 · 9 days ago

                                                                              All this talk about how creepy Facebook is and yet most people use it? If Facebook was that creepy it wouldn't be a trillion dollar company. So they saw a "creepy" ad. They went "haha" or whatever and then kept using it. I mean how would you even quantify that the feature was "poorly thought out" or "slimy" at that point? If that was the case why didn't the user log off and never come back? Then at least Facebook would have a signal to work with.

                                                                              Sometimes people really miss the forest for the trees. Most people actually like Facebook. If you can't wrap your head around that you have to accept you are distinct from the typical consumer. A trillion dollars is not made by appealing to the margins. If Facebook really sucked so bad everyone would log off.

                                                                              Instead of another boring Facebook sucks comment why don't you ask your sibling why they didn't stop interacting with the website after that? You would probably learn more about the world doing that than trying to speculate about marketing tool features at a company you don't work for.

                                                                        • not_a_bot_4sho · 9 days ago

                                                                          Sounds like the viewers were highly unlikely to have clicked through. Cost the advertiser a view but lost the conversion.

                                                                          Useful ad for Facebook. They made money on it. The advertiser didn't.

                                                                          • theNotFractured · 9 days ago

                                                                            If the viewers don't click on facebook, advertisers would stop advertising on facebook.

                                                                            • chrz · 9 days ago

                                                                              but lot of clicks doesnt happen because of the content

                                                                          • boelboel · 9 days ago

                                                                            Many people want to date their own friends? Seeing your friend is on the site would show it's okay to use?

                                                                            • dwa3592 · 9 days ago

                                                                              This is a ridiculous argument that just because someone still remembers something means it was a good advertising strategy. This is partly why advertising sucks. The correct metric in this case would be did the user actually go on the date with the said person or at least initiated the conversation. In this person's case, very likely not. So the strategy is dumb, ridiculous and laughable but not useful or good in any sense.

                                                                              • godwinson__4-8 · 9 days ago

                                                                                You seem ignorant of how money is made in these situations. The money is already made way before anyone ever goes on an actual date. Therefore the people showing you the ads are still incentivized to show the ad.

                                                                                If you thought about things more clearly you would also realize that a platform that tried to measure something more like "how did the date actually go" would be even more dystopian. You want an algorithm to start pricing in the cost of you falling in love? If a date goes amazing should the software send you an additional invoice? People who use these apps are already essentially outsourcing interpersonal relationships. How far do you want to take that? The lack of precision is not "dumb, ridiculous and laughable" it's actually a saving grace.

                                                                              • hbn · 9 days ago

                                                                                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.

                                                                                • dewey · 9 days ago

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

                                                                                • RIMR · 9 days ago

                                                                                  They're married now, too.

                                                                                • PyWoody · 9 days ago

                                                                                  Roll tide.

                                                                                  • themaninthedark · 9 days ago

                                                                                    I could see people clicking through to see if their friend had a dating profile, if not for the romantic interest the gossip interest.

                                                                                    • RattlesnakeJake · 9 days ago

                                                                                      Okay, this may actually explain it XD

                                                                                  • invalidusernam3 · 9 days ago

                                                                                    "I'm uncomfortable"

                                                                                    Should have read the terms and conditions

                                                                                    • onemoresoop · 9 days ago

                                                                                      What percentage of people read those? They’re even unitelligible to the layman.

                                                                                      • hurfdurf · 9 days ago

                                                                                        And that's how the HUMANCENTiPAD keeps growing.

                                                                                        • dylan604 · 9 days ago

                                                                                          Hey Siri, find the gotchas in this EULA being presented /s

                                                                                      • srmatto · 9 days ago

                                                                                        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 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 · 9 days ago

                                                                                          Every 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 · 9 days ago

                                                                                            Well 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 · 9 days ago

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

                                                                                            • ed_elliott_asc · 9 days ago

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

                                                                                              • afavour · 9 days ago

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

                                                                                                • rolph · 9 days ago

                                                                                                  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.

                                                                                              • catlikesshrimp · 9 days ago

                                                                                                U a manequin head. Add hair and moles. It mightbtake more than one try but it works. Eventually, people who make shell accounts will be declared creepy child predators, but that isn't the case, yet.

                                                                                                • breezybottom · 9 days ago

                                                                                                  I'm not making a mannequin head to see a restaurant menu.

                                                                                                  • greenchair · 9 days ago

                                                                                                    sounds like a business opportunity!

                                                                                              • plagiarist · 9 days ago

                                                                                                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.

                                                                                                • srmatto · 9 days ago

                                                                                                  Small businesses are pretty important for a number of reasons and I think if people adopted this stance it would hurt them a lot more than it would hurt Meta.

                                                                                                • microgpt · 9 days ago

                                                                                                  We need a Nitter for Instagram.

                                                                                              • ricardofranco · 9 days ago

                                                                                                Something 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 · 9 days ago

                                                                                                  I feel like having an account on a Meta site is today’s equivalent of being a smoker.

                                                                                                  • nicce · 9 days ago

                                                                                                    There isn't better analogy. I hope it spreads and we will see the same effect and social pressure as smokers faced.

                                                                                                    • catlikesshrimp · 9 days ago

                                                                                                      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.

                                                                                                      • busymom0 · 9 days ago

                                                                                                        Agreed. I rarely see smokers nowadays but I see a lot of vapers everywhere even including on public transit and kids.

                                                                                                    • breezybottom · 9 days ago

                                                                                                      Being a smoker in the 1950s maybe.

                                                                                                      • anon_shill · 9 days ago

                                                                                                        After 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.

                                                                                                        • ThouYS · 9 days ago

                                                                                                          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

                                                                                                          • literalAardvark · 9 days ago

                                                                                                            The surveillance glasses are nearing 3rd gen.

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

                                                                                                          • remywang · 9 days ago

                                                                                                            Just stop using that cursed website

                                                                                                            • fourside · 9 days ago

                                                                                                              It 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 · 9 days ago

                                                                                                                Maybe they're not surprised, they just don't care

                                                                                                              • cryo32 · 9 days ago

                                                                                                                Yeah just done that. Hosed my Instagram account.

                                                                                                                • rchaud · 9 days ago

                                                                                                                  Even if you don't use FB, pictures of you tagged by your friends are fair game.

                                                                                                                  • AuthAuth · 9 days ago

                                                                                                                    Dont have friends, simple as

                                                                                                                  • bcraven · 9 days 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 · 9 days ago

                                                                                                                    When you don't pay for the product... YOU are the product.

                                                                                                                    • VortexLain · 9 days ago

                                                                                                                      Sometimes it seems like Black Mirror screenwriters work at Meta as a side hustle.

                                                                                                                      • halflife · 9 days ago

                                                                                                                        I actually find this incredible, since this highlights how desperate they are to advertise these glasses

                                                                                                                        • jmorenoamor · 9 days ago

                                                                                                                          Why? Because they can, and they will.

                                                                                                                          Leaving these services looks difficult or impossible, until you do it, and the world just keeps spinning.

                                                                                                                          • wartywhoa23 · 9 days ago

                                                                                                                            IG users were the proverbial product on this free-to-partake vanity fair since its inception.

                                                                                                                            • subygan · 9 days ago

                                                                                                                              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.

                                                                                                                              • giancarlostoro · 9 days ago

                                                                                                                                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.

                                                                                                                                • red_admiral · 9 days ago

                                                                                                                                  As if Meta glasses weren't creepy enough already.

                                                                                                                                  • mcmcmc · 9 days ago

                                                                                                                                    Always amusing when people discover they’re paying for free services with something other than money.

                                                                                                                                    • ornornor · 9 days ago

                                                                                                                                      Company 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 · 9 days ago

                                                                                                                                        How much abuse are the users willing to take before the take action?

                                                                                                                                        • fullshark · 9 days ago

                                                                                                                                          Possibly unlimited so long as the hot and cool people are on the platform.

                                                                                                                                        • hmokiguess · 9 days 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 · 9 days ago

                                                                                                                                            Well, 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 · 9 days ago

                                                                                                                                              The news here is that people are still using instagram.

                                                                                                                                              • dewey · 9 days ago

                                                                                                                                                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.

                                                                                                                                              • zombot · 9 days ago

                                                                                                                                                Important reminder that you don't belong to yourself anymore when using these "services".