I’ve been a social media hermit for the past 3 years but recently I’ve given up and created a few accounts across different apps again. It’s unreal how strict the requirements are now.
- Give e-mail (ok)
- Give phone number (… eeh, ok)
- Use the new account for a while
- Account suspended, please upload selfie to continue (no thanks xi). There are also some verification promps where you have to record a video and rotate your face left to right
If this isn’t a message to move to indie web I don’t know what is
lol good!
Fuck stalky social media. Instagram is just there for farming engagement for ads and make you scroll for hours.
If you want to look at truly great photography or art go to a museum or exhibition.
There’s hardly any photography in there nowadays…it’s all reels.
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I’ve had that a few times on my accounts (I scrape content so they get suspended relatively often) and I always just grab a photo from thispersondoesnotexist.com and crop out the watermark. It hasn’t failed me yet.
Do you have a good recommendation for when they ask for a photo ID? I read about OnlyFakes, but its down and I can’t find an alternative.
Basically I want thisIDdoesnotexist
I know you can get ID deets here, but I don’t know any service that turns it into a facsimile of a state ID card.
Yeah basically that plus thispersondoesnotexist thrown into a Photoshop template rendered as a photo on a floor carpet with AI
Edit: I found https://verif.tools but some of them don’t look very good.
I’ve never had them ask for a photo ID so idk.
can confirm this also works with google account
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and in the same way, perhaps stop saying “westerners”
many us had the same thought that it’s xenophobic bullshit… perhaps we all should stop arbitrarily grouping people into geographic groups and making sweeping generalisations
and saying that the USA is dumber than a donkey and implying that china is not is just fucking laughable… i’m aussie, so i have no horse in either race: our economy is almost entirely reliant on china and we rely on the USA for basically everything else, including protection from china… and yknow what? all cultures are fucking weird… stop being so god damn condescending. the only thing it proves is that you’ve never travelled enough, or that “different” makes you uncomfortable which makes you an incurable bigot
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I think OP is confusing Instagram with Tiktok.
He’s probably referencing that influencers of all platforms are paid to push propaganda to their followers by various state actors.
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Bigoted and trying to hide it behind “buhhhh buhhh it’s just a joke guise” like that tactic hasn’t been cracked for like a decade
Account suspended, please upload selfie to continue (no thanks xi).
I mean, I hate Facebook as much as the next guy but…I’m pretty sure your Facebook page probably already has hundreds of photos of you, so it doesn’t seem like a big ask, but it also seems like a terrible verification method…
I’ve been a social media hermit for the past 3 years but recently
I doubt that they have uploaded any kind of photos
They said “for the past 3 years”, indicating they were using it previously.
social media hermit for the past 3 years
Like an individual who avoided social-media/online-sharing for the past 3 years.
What is your point? Do you just not realize the world existed prior to 3 years ago?
The PM of China has nothing to fucking do with Mark Lizardman Zuckerberg wanting your data, please shut the fuck up if you’re going to be verifiably ignorant
I’ve had this happen and did upload the selfie but I think it happened because I was blocking some extra stuff that it was flagging my account to be automated
I’m a little gutted that I lost my Facebook account, if only because it was so old I had a username. Instead of my profile only being facebook.com/<number>, my profile was like facebook.com/tweak. People were really surprised by that.
However they blocked my account because I used 3rd party web wrapper apps and once had a poor internet connection in a remote location. It asked me to log in again, I did, then it said “you’ve done something strange” and demanded government ID. I actually complied (although I taped up most of the info, like it said I could) but it kept automatically rejecting it. I think it was because my profile used the shortened version of my name, which I go by on a day to day basis, while my ID uses the full version.
One of these days I might twist their arm with GDPR and get them to grant me access, however my local ICO has been pretty toothless under the current right wing government. I don’t really miss Facebook, but there are friends and family on there I’d like to contact, and I was a member of a particularly good meme group.
How did you get in contact with them? They locked my account 2 months ago for unknown reasons.
I don’t give my picture to social media but in a way the fact that you have to take pictures directly from your app is the proper way to digitalised identifing someone. Back to the time where people phisically register, people will showed up to prove which face they have an match it with an non reproductible identity card. But, now I could easily inpersonnate 5 or 10 of my relative and love-ones from the picture I have from them and image of their id-card or another official document they have give me access to, or they have access from my computer once.
Follow up message be like
“Hi this is mark from instagram, so a face scan wasnt enough to verify your account. We sent you vials to fill with your dna, so we can be 100% sure.just to verify that you are who you say you are thanks!.”
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Yet all those Instagram bots still exist. Weird
Maybe for app banking app (and even…), it could be understanding but for instagram, NEVER! Even for security reason… Bro they don’t care about anything on their network, allow soft porn and all that kind of stuff. And after all of that they are going to come to say that it is for security reasons 😂 Stay on the “libre” web, Lemmy is a great start! 👌
i mean, unless the bank already knows what you look like or could cross reference with an existing id photo, i cant see how it would be any more secure.
Yeah I’ve only done it on government websites because I had to
And government website already know who you are
Instead of my ID, I submitted a picture of dolphins and the text “So long and thanks for all the fish!”. And never came back.
They want to be able to make sure they’re stealing data from real people and also ensure that your real life offline can be destroyed at any time lol
I mean, they know they’re stealingg it from a real person, and no matter how careful you are, they’re tracking you.
Even if you don’t have a profile, they have a “you shaped hole” and someone somewhere has tagged you in a picture. They still have data on you built from people in any picture you were tagged in, their data gets extrapolated to you.
The ID is so they can sell the data for a higher price because it’s “verified” to be yours. Even tho without it they still 100% know it’s you.
This isn’t about Facebook getting your ID, it’s just so the people they’ll selling it to pay more.
There’s a chance a human never looked at OPs Shrek picture, an AI may have just checked it against real name tagged photos and it didn’t match. Even tho OP doesn’t have a Facebook account under their real name.
Facebook still knows what OP looks like, and almost assuredly knew the burner account was theirs
Yep, Ghost Profiles.
Though I’d live to see what they think they have on me.
I’m old enough to well pre-date digital cameras, and of the photos I know I’m in, those people are unlikely to have uploaded pics (very few of those photos are with phones, and those people don’t share online with others much anyway).
Genuinely very curious, since I’m such an outlier - it would be really insightful as to how effective FB is at piecing disparate and tiny elements, including the tracking pixels, etc.
I’ve never intentionally even been to the FB website - the first time a college kid in the family talked about it, I knew it was bad news, but couldn’t convince them.
Maybe I’ll spin up a Linux machine off of usb, fire up a VPN, hit FB and see what I can find. I’m kind of curious now.
Do you never join photos when in social gatherings and someone takes a group picture with their phone?
Nope.
I don’t remember the last time I was in a group taking photos. Family, years ago, but the older person taking the photo was using a digital camera, not a phone, and would maybe share via text.
No one in my family really uses Facebook, and wouldn’t waste their time tagging anyone. Anyone looking at those photos would know who is who - no need to tag.
The photo would have to be tagged by someone I don’t even know, like a sibling’s friend’s kid or something, and there’s no reason for them to be viewing these photos, let alone tagging them - they likely wouldn’t even be interested in the first place.
Unless you mean “accidentally being somewhere in the background of a stranger’s photo”, yes. I usually opt out of being photographed, was never forced into this.
remember that your searches for yourself feed them data too
