this post was submitted on 07 Jan 2025
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Slight difference between playing with a new feature in your app and volunteering to have your image used in targeted ads.
Or maybe there isn't anymore. Maybe just having a phone with a camera automatically means you deserve everything the Mega-Corps do to you.
That is exactly what they think and there is no sympathy around here apparently.
People thinking that everyone should live their life like theirs and no room to enter in at other than already perfect.
Empathy is gone in 2025.
If Instagram had pulled an image from his phone's storage and then presented him with an ad using it, I'd be outraged.
He uploaded the photo to their platform, which means he loses control of what's done with it.
This isn't new or news. Facebook/Insta/Twitter have been shitty companies for years and years. Stop giving them your data.
Most people lack empathy for self-inflicted injury, and the problem is that the perception of what is self-inflicted varies from person to person.
See, personally, I think anybody on any corporate social media verges on the self-inflicted by now, given that it's been common knowledge for years that Facebook and Google and and and are completely and utterly unhinged in their lack of humanity.
Perhaps I was just* naive but I caught on about Facebook long before Google.
Google's evil was more in the background; you had to be paying attention to find it until they decided that they were powerful enough to be openly evil.
I was massively downvoted elsewhere on Lemmy for suggesting that maybe joking about a suicide victim on the day of their suicide is not something that would be helpful for another suicidal person to see. But you know, fuck me for suggesting people have some thought for other people.
You got downvoted for your tantrum
I see. Two questions:
As a psychic yourself, I'm hoping you can answer 2b.
Go get therapy, you clearly need some mental help. The music in your head is completely disconnected from reality.
You're not a very good psychic.
The issue isn't that his phone has a camera. The problem is that he uploaded a personal photo to their tool, then got annoyed that they showed him what else could be done with that image using their tool.
I have not uploaded any images to Instagram, and they have not targeted me with any ads. Pretty easy fix. Stop willingly giving these companies your data, and then complain about what they do with it.
You sound so smart.
You don't.
If not uploading pictures to social media is smart, consider me Albert Einstein!
Conversely, keep uploading your pics to Facebook and Instagram and continue to get mad at what they do with the pictures you've given them.
So edgy too.