Your photos belong to Instagram

[j0hnsmith]

Facebook's photo-sharing site Instagram has updated its privacy policy giving it the right to sell users' photos to advertisers without notification.
Unless users delete their Instagram accounts by a deadline of 16 January, they cannot opt out.

BBC News - Instagram wants right to sell users' photos to advertisers

 

[dmnEPC]

A notice updating the privacy policy on the Instagram site said: "We may share your information as well as information from tools like cookies, log files, and device identifiers and location data with organisations that help us provide the service to you... (and) third-party advertising partners."

"To help us deliver interesting paid or sponsored content or promotions, you agree that a business may pay us to display your username, likeness, photos, in connection with paid or sponsored content or promotions, without any compensation to you," it added.

Fuck you Facebook.

They have critical mass and don't care if the loud mouths delete their accounts. At most 5 % of users will delete their accounts. It's to bad though Instagram used to be cool. Now it's filled with spam so good riddance

 

[microphone head]

I'd like to think that people here will be creative enough to find a way to use that to their advantage. I can't think of how just at the moment, but I wouldn't put it past one of you lot to come up with something workable.

They are still a bunch of twunts though.

 

[SkyFire]

Someone needs to build a proper sharing app that users PAY FOR so the app is the product, not the users, and posts to any service the user chooses; facebook images, twitter, imgur, etc etc.

I'd do it, but I wouldn't know where to begin with image processing for filter effects.

 

[productionhead]

Someone needs to build a proper sharing app that users PAY FOR so the app is the product, not the users, and posts to any service the user chooses; facebook images, twitter, imgur, etc etc.

I'd do it, but I wouldn't know where to begin with image processing for filter effects.

Just pass it thru instagram, scrape, then delete off instagram

:anon.sml:

 

[RalphySeo]

oh noes, my fewds and cats phodos. wut r u doing to do fuckerbuRGGG.

 

[Jizzlobber]

Lulz for Suddenly Nutsack.

 

[FeedMeBacon]

Did anyone not see this coming?

 

[mituozo]

Someone needs to build a proper sharing app that users PAY FOR so the app is the product, not the users, and posts to any service the user chooses; facebook images, twitter, imgur, etc etc.

I'd do it, but I wouldn't know where to begin with image processing for filter effects.

The problem is that 99% of people would rather not pay for something they can get for free. They don't care if they don't own the photos they send through filters, or even read the TOS.

 

[dsm56]

Anyone think this might be a good way to push instagram users to start using facebook more?

Maybe in 2-3 weeks Facebook will release some really nice photo filters?

 

[vilesyntax]

not if i scrape them ^_^

 

[productionhead]

Anyone think this might be a good way to push instagram users to start using facebook more?

Maybe in 2-3 weeks Facebook will release some really nice photo filters?

lol FB owns both

 

[Zsaleem]

lol FB owns both

You don't get his point, FB makes more money via user at Facebook than user at Instagram. So maybe they want them to directly Facebook, cutting Instagram for a cool billion dollars. ( I personally think this 1 Billion $ buyout is overly exaggerated to get it more publicity).

 

[amateursurgeon]

Someone needs to build a proper sharing app that users PAY FOR so the app is the product, not the users, and posts to any service the user chooses; facebook images, twitter, imgur, etc etc.

I'd do it, but I wouldn't know where to begin with image processing for filter effects.

Most consumers don't pay for stuff on the Internet. They use it for free and they whinge when someone tries to make money off it.

 

[productionhead]

You don't get his point, FB makes more money via user at Facebook than user at Instagram. So maybe they want them to directly Facebook, cutting Instagram for a cool billion dollars. ( I personally think this 1 Billion $ buyout is overly exaggerated to get it more publicity).

If they wanted that they would simply merge Instagram into Facebook

They already control it, why would they seek to alienate users by breaching privacy from one of their products, so they will use another one.... when it's owned by the same exact company?

U fewls

 

[VinBed]

I don't give much of a shit as long as instagram doesn't start limiting how many people can see your images like the atrocious facebook news feed.

 

[Rancor13]

I think it would encourage users to post more photos and use app more if they simply allow the user to get a cut of profit from photos sold. Even it were like 10-20%...

 

[Mightier]

Anyone think this might be a good way to push instagram users to start using facebook more?

Maybe in 2-3 weeks Facebook will release some really nice photo filters?

Facebook already has photo filters built into their camera app.

 

[BassHead]

The people who actually care about this stuff make up the vast minority of the facebook population. Most people won't even care or realize what this means to them.

 

[dsm56]

If they wanted that they would simply merge Instagram into Facebook

They already control it, why would they seek to alienate users by breaching privacy from one of their products, so they will use another one.... when it's owned by the same exact company?

U fewls

Because cool hippy guys don't actually know who owns instagram. And this way they get to play the bad guy with instagram and direct people to FB.

They also get the cool hipster guys to start using facebook like instagram, which might get their friends to start posting cool hipster photos too etc etc...

How many of the 50m instagram users do you think know about the FB sale? 10%? Those users are worth losing if the other 90% just start using FB and they manage to turn FB into a cool photo sharing app.

Genius.