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This is why I requested family not to post pictures of my children on Facebook. They will get to decide what to do with their likenesses when they're older. It
by ants_everywhere 1y ago
This is why I requested family not to post pictures of my children on Facebook.
They will get to decide what to do with their likenesses when they're older. It seemed cruel to let Facebook train a model on them from the time they were babies until they first start using social media in earnest.
- sebmellen 1y agoSince Facebook is pulling from the camera roll, not posting is not an adequate defense.
- zhivota 1y agoOnly logical thing to do personally is to take it completely off your mobile devices. You still get caught in the dragnet if you have friends and family posting you. Also in many places WhatsApp is practically a requirement for daily life which is frustrating. What I need is some kind of restricted app sandbox in which to place untrustworthy apps, they see a fake filesystem, fake system calls, etc.
- latentsea 1y agoOn Android you can just make a separate user profile for it and do that I suppose.
- dzhiurgis 1y agoCaught in what tho?
- microtonal 1y agoWhat I need is some kind of restricted app sandbox in which to place untrustworthy apps, they see a fake filesystem, fake system calls, etc. GrapheneOS comes pretty close to that I think? You can put such apps in a separate profile and cut off a lot of permissions. You can also scope contacts, storage, etc.
- dangus 1y agoRecent iOS versions have granular controls over library access to prevent this.
- bnjms 1y agoIt isn’t nice to use though. You select your picture then when you need to add more you’ve got to go back into the settings for that app and select the picture. Then add the picture you selected. I’m grateful though. We would have called meta malware back when.
- dangus 1y agoIt’s not that clunky anymore. You can limit access to the library to pick media from and it’ll give you the full library with this message: Limited Access to Your Library "App" can only access the items that you select. The app can add to your library even if no items are selected.
- what 1y agoThe built in camera roll widget lets you edit what pictures are allowed without going to settings. Maybe it’s a new change or the apps you use have a custom photo picker, I dunno.
- bnjms 1y agoThanks. It must be improved since I last used it. I only need it very rarely and mostly block Meta and Snapchat.
- dzhiurgis 1y agoI try to use web versions of everything (fb, insta, x). If it’s shitty enough I’ll use it less. I.e. messenger.com is possible to use if you request desktop version, change font size and deal with all sort of zoom issues. Of course fb doesn’t support actual calls or notifications just because, so I don’t use it. Instagram is even sneakier - you can’t post stories via mobile to “close friends”, post videos or view them from instant messages.
- jwr 1y agoIn some countries (notably Poland) Facebook is so burned into people's brains that you can't avoid this, and if you try, people and institutions will consider you a tinfoil hat weirdo and put pressure on you. Basically every kindergarten, primary school and high school will want to post pictures.
- throwacct 1y agoI don't care if they label me a weirdo. I agree with OP. Please refrain from posting any pictures of my children. Simple as that.
- chii 1y agoi deleted my facebook account over 15 years ago, and people at the time thought i was weird for doing so. I would feel vindicated today, except i dont, because neither my friends nor coworkers have followed, nor want to despite all evidence to the contrary!
- mrweasel 1y agoSame in Denmark. Some companies don't have websites, only a Facebook page, Facebook Marketplace has all but killed the local marketplace sites and pretty much anything related to organized sports and after school activities are coordinated on closed Facebook groups. The last one is the worst one. That's basically telling people that they will hold your child's social life hostage until you join Facebook. LinkedIn was used in a similar manor, to coordinate meetups for our local Cloud Native meetups, but the LinkedIn algorithms are much much worse than Facebooks, so people would get "You might be interested in this meetup" two weeks after the event. Facebook basically took over communication, no more mailing lists, no more updates on the website, if there even is a website. You just have to accept Facebook if you want to be notified about changes in scheduling, upcoming events or general information about your kids soccer practise.
- mystifyingpoi 1y agoFor real. I've been searching for a swimming school for our daughter in Poland. The one that looked promising had a contract with clause, giving the school full rights to post any pictures of her in the swimming pool to social media. Of course, parents are strictly prohibited from making ANY photos at all. Fuck them.
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- Aeolun 1y agoThey can use Facebook however they want. They just can’t upload pictures taken of other people without consent. That has nothing to do with Facebook and everything with generally applicable laws.
- tock 1y agoI was writing a response before realising this profile is an AI agent. Is this seriously allowed on HN? The bio reads: "It's largely for my amusement and I like to play games."
- aspenmayer 1y agoNeither bots nor generated comments are allowed on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33950747 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33950747
- pkkkzip 1y agothats a great excuse to avoid answering my question, not that i care very much for your opinion but i find it ironic that you would use censorship to deflect attention from a non issue
- dang 1y agoIt's not allowed, and since it has also been breaking the site guidelines, we've banned the account.
- mitthrowaway2 1y agoSome cultures long avoided being photographed, because they believed the camera would steal their soul. It took the rest of us much longer to realize they were right.
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- dzhiurgis 1y ago[flagged]
- tomhow 1y agoPlease don't sneer like this at other community members.
- phyzix5761 1y agoMaybe they mean identity by soul which is kind of what's happening here.
- heavyset_go 1y agoIt's a metaphor.
- chii 1y ago> the camera would steal their soul. wasn't the camera doing the stealing, but the holder of the photo (facebook in this case)! And it wasn't the soul being stolen, but money!
- jaza 1y agoNo, I'm pretty sure they're stealing souls. That or kidneys.
- b00ty4breakfast 1y agoAs is the wont of industrial society, we had to meticulously design and build our demons.
- huhkerrf 1y agoI did the same. And then my mother-in-law decided to ignore my requests. And then my mother got angry. And then I caved.
- fvgvkujdfbllo 1y agoThey are simply addicted to likes and photos of your children can hook them up easily.
- jamesponddotco 1y agoMy mother-in-law did the same, then I cut her off, no more pictures of the kid. She got into the program after that.
- blindriver 1y agoThere are children who don't even know if they want to be spies or undercover cops when they grow up that have already been identified by facial recognition. There will be an entire generation or more of spies and undercover agents that will have been identified before they had a chance to even contemplate their lives in that field.
- ndsipa_pomu 1y agoTime to invest in facial plastic surgery