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Instagram is incorporating users' photos in ads for Meta Glasses

Instagram is incorporating users' photos in ads for Meta Glasses

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Comments (107)

  • Cthulhu_
    Didn't Facebook do this years and years ago?Yes, 2013: https://mashable.com/archive/facebook-ads-photo#ggcKnNfAUaqy> According to Facebook's Statement of Rights and Responsibilities:> You give us permission to use your name, profile picture, content, and information in connection with commercial, sponsored, or related content (such as a brand you like) served or enhanced by us. This means, for example, that you permit a business or other entity to pay us to display your name and/or profile picture with your content or information, without any compensation to you. If you have selected a specific audience for your content or information, we will respect your choice when we use it.So it's not new. If you don't want this, delete your facebook account: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/dialog/delete-your-informat...
  • RattlesnakeJake
    Many years ago (back when Facebook still had sidebar ads), my sister was presented with a dating ad for "Hot Christian Singles" accompanied by a photo of our brother.It was hilarious, but also mind-boggling. In what scenario would pulling in a friend's profile photo create a useful ad?
  • srmatto
    Is Meta abusing its users a problem? Yes. Does the TOS allow for it? Yes. Can people decide to just create a shell account and not actually participate? Sure.One of the real insidious problems with Instagram and to some extent Facebook is that they provide a free, low friction way for business to communicate with current or potential customers. As a result many small businesses use Instagram as replacement for a public facing website and perhaps a blog or email newsletter. Many small business in my region depend on Instagram for this purpose, its nearly universal. It helps keep you stuck in Instagram so that you can see a business' hours, menu, or special events. I guess a shell account is the answer but you're still going to have to navigate the skinner box feed.
  • remywang
    Just stop using that cursed website
  • penr0se
    This shouldn't really be surprising. It's very similar to what they did ~1.5 year ago when they started to use users' photos to promote Meta AIhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42615538
  • croes
    How much abuse are the users willing to take before the take action?
  • microgpt
  • VortexLain
    Sometimes it seems like Black Mirror screenwriters work at Meta as a side hustle.
  • tantalor
    Comment on that thread:> This seems entirely counter-productive and creepy.Apt description of Instagram in general.
  • encomiast
    I feel like having an account on a Meta site is today’s equivalent of being a smoker.
  • giancarlostoro
    Amazing we live in an age where making a fake image of someone that looks realistic enough (and for a tiny thumbnail resolution to boot) with a company that makes arguably lesser used but somewhat frontier AI models, not using said models to make these ads less intrusive, whilst still making them feel slightly personalized.
  • mcmcmc
    Always amusing when people discover they’re paying for free services with something other than money.
  • red_admiral
    As if Meta glasses weren't creepy enough already.
  • jmorenoamor
    Why? Because they can, and they will.Leaving these services looks difficult or impossible, until you do it, and the world just keeps spinning.
  • fullshark
    Ten years ago maybe this causes outrage, but I'm not sure anyone cares in 2026 including potential customers.
  • ornornor
    Company owned by a sociopath and which has proven time and time and time again that they have no regard for your privacy does it again. It’s good to keep talking about it so that there is still some friction attached to pulling this off for Meta, but if you’re surprised at this I don’t know what to tell you.Delete your social media and join the rest of us living free!
  • halflife
    I actually find this incredible, since this highlights how desperate they are to advertise these glasses
  • wartywhoa23
    IG users were the proverbial product on this free-to-partake vanity fair since its inception.
  • ricardofranco
    Something similar happened to me a few years ago. my photo was used in an ad, making it look like I was selling stuff and promoting a page I’d never even clicked on... absolutely mind-blowing....
  • quadrature
    Is there actual proof that they are doing this. Theres not much to go on in the tweet.
  • glimshe
    When you don't pay for the product... YOU are the product.
  • Zhyl
    The XKCD for this exact scenario is 14 years old.https://xkcd.com/1150/
  • invalidusernam3
    "I'm uncomfortable"Should have read the terms and conditions
  • subygan
    As horrible as it sounds.For the median user, It really is impossible to have an alternative to instagram / whatsapp / facebook. It is so easy to live in a bubble and say I'll host my own things. but a totally different thing to have a functioning network effects machine.
  • ThouYS
    why are people using these products exactly?signing away their rights to their photos? making psychopaths filthy rich?if the surveillance glasses are coming, these people will also have signed away the commons, which are not theirs to give away
  • jimt1234
    I don't know what's worse - this, or all the ads/commercials for Meta Glasses featuring Kylie Jenner, like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yYQO8exxaU
  • ThePowerOfFuet
  • hsuduebc2
    I mean, what would you expect from company with morality of tobacco and slot machines producer? This is the least evil they are doing.This thing resurface from time to time. It's the small text you never read. In this case, small part in ridiculously and intentionally big eula.
  • nicechianti
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