I find this line of argument very unconvincing because it has nothing to do with Pinterest. > Pinterest, it should be noted, doesn’t cost anything to sign up f

I find this line of argument very unconvincing because it has nothing to do with Pinterest. > Pinterest, it should be noted, doesn’t cost anything to sign up for. But as the old internet maxim goes, “If you’re not paying for it, you are the product.’” Meanwhile, people who do use the service complain that the resolution of Pinterest images is often low. It's annoying to make an account, but they are paying to host the image. That you want a particular image is already tracked by the other image hosts. It does not seem like a net loss of privacy. One possibility is that Pinterest is really actually very popular and the people who reasonably hate the awful site are in the minority (which sucks for us but it's hard to be critical of their images coming up often). The other possibility is everyone hates Pinterest and Google is allowing their search to get gamed - and in that case the ball seems in Google's court? Like, your users hate your search, fix it. Either way it seems like yelling at Pinterest for "ruining" photo search in one particular way is silly. They have either been so successful as to redefine how people want to access images or they're cheating.