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KaiserPro 5 days ago

For what it's worth, I don't think facebook are scanning your photos.

the biggest reason is that probably enough of a ToS violation to get them yeeted from the app store.

It looks like its using metadata to work out when to nagg you.

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ath3nd 4 days ago | parent [-]

And some people like you also thought facebook are respecting incognito mode and not starting a spyware agent server int the background of your device, but they were wrong.

https://localmess.github.io/

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KaiserPro 4 days ago | parent [-]

Thanks for the insinuation there, it means a lot.

The reason why I said this is because its not part of the advertising team. The advertising team can do all sorts of shit because it makes them money. The rest of the company have more constraints.

The ads pricks are not the ones that have to ask the app store to let them back on, when one of the builds gets tagged as non-compliant.

Now, its not impossible, but unlikely. if it was something to with Ads, I'd be less sure.

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ath3nd 3 days ago | parent [-]

> The rest of the company have more constraints.

Is it in the realm of science fiction to suggest that they are snooping on your pics in order to have a better understanding of their victims so they can target them with more personalised ads?

	▲	KaiserPro 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		> to suggest that they are snooping on your pics in order to have a better understanding of their victims no, but its expensive to do for little gain. Look at all the stupid snooping shit facebook, its all about getting a concrete link between persona and buying an object. scanning photos is a detectable gamble, and the signal you'll get for that is pretty questionable. You're also assuming that they can over come conways law to actually pull it off. The risk of doing that vs the reward of signal is not worth it. It also will get them fined like a motherfucker by the FCC, as they still nominally have oversight over "privacy". I mean that now questionable, given the state of the executive branch. Its far easier to just work out if a 14 year old girl has just deleted a photo and target them with body image products. Much safer from the FCC too.