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Wow I hate this view of the future. My family photo albums are for the people in my living room to see. I really want the digital equivalents of them to be th
by blhack 14y ago
Wow I hate this view of the future. My family photo albums are for the people in my living room to see. I really want the digital equivalents of them to be the same, and feel like pushing the paradigm in that direction is valuable.
This "well the future just sucks, DEAL WITH IT!" mentality that I see parroted here on HN so often is disgusting.
Online is broken. Let's fix it, and let's champion anybody else who is trying to fix it.
- pacala 14y agoIt's even broken in trivial ways. Sure, sharing a pic with one's friends raises the risk of someone sharing it on Twitter, but that is super simple to do. Right click, Save Image As..., Upload, Browse, OK. Here are 2 little technical things to do: * Make the browser technology slightly less happy to assume that displaying a picture means that the viewer has all the rights to download it for his/hers own use. Take out "Save Image As...", perhaps if a "private" attribute is set on the image. * Make Facebook technology display more clearly what is the audience of a given item. Yeah, that means spelling in clear if the image is available for advertisers as well. Given this little two steps, "accidentally" posting a private image to Twitter becomes less of an excuse. You took the action of taking a screen snapshot (or camera pic) of something explicitly labeled as private and posted it for a public audience. That sucks and may be even be grounds for legal action under copyright law.