Instagram is incorporating users' photos in ads for Meta Glasses

https://twitter.com/i/status/2071277885646868536

75•notRobot•1h ago

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Cthulhu_•1h ago

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...

pavel_lishin•26m ago

> If you don't want this, delete your facebook account

What? I thought I could just paste a paragraph of all-caps legalese to my profile, and it would solve this!

ThePowerOfFuet•1h ago

https://xcancel.com/venturetwins/status/2071277885646868536

kuschkufan•41m ago

i edited it to the same url before opening as i usually do for twitter urls so that i can see the full conversation without being logged into twitter.

for some reason the url rewrote iteself to this: https://themenspiegel.click/c/de/52_merzchrupalla/?method=po...

which is a german language scam site. i have no explanation how this happened, whether it is xcancel.com doing this or something loaded from twitter that caused xcancel to do this. never seen anythin like it before, would like to know more.

btw any further reloads of the xcancel url to that tweet totally work as expected.

pavel_lishin•25m ago

Throwing an additional anecdote into the bucket, this did not happen for me. Any chance you have a dodgy extension installed?

hsuduebc2•51m ago

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.

fullshark•50m ago

Ten years ago maybe this causes outrage, but I'm not sure anyone cares in 2026 including potential customers.

quadrature•45m ago

Is there actual proof that they are doing this. Theres not much to go on in the tweet.

tantalor•37m ago

Besides the proof in the screenshot? What more do you want?

Do you think this user is faking it?

ryan42•25m ago

yes, it happened to me recently.

The photo wasn't mine, but showed a profile photo of one of my facebook friends, and it had the glasses and said "On my way!"

edoceo•8m ago

And they have a history of doing this. And their privacy/ToS allows it.

tantalor•36m ago

Comment on that thread:

> This seems entirely counter-productive and creepy.

Apt description of Instagram in general.

penr0se•35m ago

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 AI

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42615538

Zhyl•33m ago

The XKCD for this exact scenario is 14 years old.

https://xkcd.com/1150/

doublerabbit•28m ago

Some reason that strip doesn't load for me.

fullshark•19m ago

Kind of a stretch, these days can't imagine anyone that views instagram as a place to store their cherished photos also.

RattlesnakeJake•19m ago

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?