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I hear that Flickr is owned by Google, another company which monetizes their users in much the same way that Facebook does. Although Flickr is on record, for n
by jgeorge 14y ago
I hear that Flickr is owned by Google, another company which monetizes their users in much the same way that Facebook does. Although Flickr is on record, for now, for saying that they'd /never/ do that to their users, it seems to me that migrating to Flickr is just trading a set of current privacy problems for a set of future privacy problems.
- msbarnett 14y ago1) Flickr is owned by Yahoo, not Google. 2) Flickr has been around a lot longer than Instagram, without ever engaging in this kind of privacy abuse. Its age and past behaviour both earn it a certain amount of trust and indicate that it is unlikely to need to turn to privacy abuse for short-term monetization to satisfy investors. 3) Flickr has a plausible monetization strategy built around its heavy entrenchment in the pro community that does not involve privacy abuse. There's absolutely no reason to believe that a move from Instagram to Flickr isn't a big, big step up in terms of privacy protection.