Re:2017 Was Bad for Facebook. 2018 Will Be Worse
by twothamendment on Thursday December 14, 2017 @03:30PM
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I'm pushing my kids photos to their own Google Photos album. Every once in a while I'll pull down the entire thing so I have a copy. They don't act like they own my photos.
Re:2017 Was Bad for Facebook. 2018 Will Be Worse
by brlewis on Thursday December 14, 2017 @04:03PM
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Are you sure they have the original size from 10 years ago? I think they may have been saving space/bandwidth back then by only keeping resized versions.
Re:2017 Was Bad for Facebook. 2018 Will Be Worse
by ucaetano on Thursday December 14, 2017 @04:11PM
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They do, if I open the photo on the fb website and download it, I get the original size. If I download through their takeout service, I get around 800x600 (exact dimensions vary slightly) with no EXIF data.
They actually go the extra mile just to make your life shittier. Such a great company!
Make sure you have the originals of those pics backed up somewhere else. When I tried to use the "takeout" (not sure what's the proper fb name) to download all my FB content and get pics from a decade ago when I wasn't as diligent in backing, I was surprised to find out that fb gives you 800x600 versions of your photos, with all EXIF metadata wiped out, even though they still have the original size.
It was a big "oh, you want your stuff so you can leave fb? here's a big fuck you". They actually spent resources to make your experience worse.