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Maybe you're forgetting how creepy it was when it first happened, back when cellphone cameras were just maturing past the potato phase? I remember the feeling o
by throwaway667555 6y ago
Maybe you're forgetting how creepy it was when it first happened, back when cellphone cameras were just maturing past the potato phase? I remember the feeling of shock and invasion when one day, suddenly Facebook's computer started calling me and my friends by name.
That feeling framed all my subsequent interactions with Facebook's burgeoning ad profiling and behavior prediction features, cloaked more artfully by FB after lesson learned not to headline their breakthroughs in computer vision. Boil we frogs on the march to normalization and surrender.
- jjav 6y ago> suddenly Facebook's computer started calling me and my friends by name Here's one creepy correlation horror story... I just started at a new job, so got a new email account in a new domain that I've never been associated with before. Last week I got an ipad as a gift, set it up with my personal account on my personal domain. Last few days, I start getting spam from apple on my work email about service offers for this new personal tablet!! Zero relationship between the accounts or domains! The only possible explanation is they're correlating the IP address and going by that. Very creepy.
- vharuck 6y agoI stopped using Facebook when I was looking around the HTML tags for an image (can't recall why) and noticed it listed keywords for the image. The keywords were lacking context and only mentioned objects and weather, so it was obvious the user didn't assign them. Facebook logging what's in photos is creepy enough, but the fact it was happening in the background was the worst.
- ganeshkrishnan 6y agoThose are alt tags and useful information for people with low vision who use screen readers