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> One the other hand, the owner of Giphy absolutely does get to limit which websites get to continue displaying the gifs that several years' of their user-gener
by ch4s3 4y ago
> One the other hand, the owner of Giphy absolutely does get to limit which websites get to continue displaying the gifs that several years' of their user-generated content backlinked to Giphy.com
I guess my question would be so what? You can cache them on your own system, if you wanted. However, I doubt historical shit posts and reaction gifs have any real value to anyone. Frankly it seems laughable that Facebook paid $660m for Gify in the first place.
- Apocryphon 4y ago> Frankly it seems laughable that Facebook paid $660m for Gify in the first place. It's another vector for collecting user analytics.
- ch4s3 4y agoI question the value there. Who cares that someone likes Seinfeld clips with George? Is that worth anything at all? You can get basically that data from Experian anyway without all of the hassle.
- Apocryphon 4y agoMaybe someone should have told Meta that when they bought Giphy!
- ch4s3 4y agoI’m pretty sure the general tone here at the time could be summarized as “what they fuck are they thinking.”