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I strongly suspect Instagram has enough data, in the posts/photos, to distinguish each separate install. And thus also, enough data to profile each "sub-persona
by gojomo 7y ago
I strongly suspect Instagram has enough data, in the posts/photos, to distinguish each separate install. And thus also, enough data to profile each "sub-persona" separately, if they wanted to, or otherwise limit the behavior if they didn't like it. (And their logs are probably extensive enough for them to do this retrospectively.)
So this is an interesting social behavior – perhaps a hint to new potential features/apps? – but probably not an actual escape from "Instagram tracking" via a "flood" of "random data", as the author/presenter has spun it.
- adminu 7y agoWhile it might be possible to Insta/FB to do that, I strongly doubt, that they do that or have systems in place to do that. It most likely is not an important use case for them as the user group that does this is way too small. I wonder, if these teens will change to something like, e.g., pixelfed, a distributed image service. That would be a lot more effective in hiding.
- t0mas88 7y agoThe only thing they need to do is store the device ID that the data originated from send they'll clearly see every individual user. And targeting of ads is mostly done by device ID anyway so they're probably already storing it.