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Re:Facebook is terrifying by bastawhiz on Saturday February 04, 2017 @04:42PM (#13569251)
> They have algorithms analyzing your photo. The solution is to run the algorithms on your computer.

Doesn't that defeat the purpose? The whole reason Facebook is able to do what they do is that they have existing tagged photos that I may not have access to. I don't need to train Facebook to know what my friends look like. If I have to do extra work to tag my photos, I'd might as well be manually tagging them.

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Re:Facebook is terrifying by AnthonyMouse on Saturday February 04, 2017 @05:25PM (#13569471)
Except that you do have a bunch of tagged photos with your friends in them, because they're your friends.

And the idea that someone who I haven't shared my photos with can still use them to tag me in other photos is not something that I would describe as a feature.

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