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Re:Instagram promises to fix bug after always accessing the ... by dpacmittal on Saturday July 25, 2020 @04:30PM (#23952146)
At this point, does Facebook really deserve benefit of the doubt?
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Re:Instagram promises to fix bug after always accessing the ... by ignoramous on Saturday July 25, 2020 @04:56PM (#23952348)
> At this point, does Facebook really deserve benefit of the doubt?

You have a point: Facebook is using the iPhone’s camera as users scroll their feed, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21513471

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Re:Instagram promises to fix bug after always accessing the ... by temporary12345 on Sunday July 26, 2020 @05:09AM (#23955604)
It is layout bug, as explained, but who cares rights? Let’s just throw stones and without a shadow of a doubt attribute it to malicious intent.
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Re:Instagram promises to fix bug after always accessing the ... by ignoramous on Sunday July 26, 2020 @05:42AM (#23955759)
Fool me once...
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Re:Instagram promises to fix bug after always accessing the ... by sumedh on Sunday July 26, 2020 @08:42AM (#23956677)
Have you read Facebook's origin story?
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Re:Instagram promises to fix bug after always accessing the ... by chance_state on Saturday July 25, 2020 @05:23PM (#23952547)
> For the last 5 years, we accidentally recorded billions of people's reactions to ads as they scrolled past them, then accidentally fed that data into our ad placement algorithm.

> We're really, reallllllly sorry and promise to do better.

Any day now....

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Re:Instagram promises to fix bug after always accessing the ... by addicted on Saturday July 25, 2020 @06:31PM (#23952898)
This has been Facebook’s modus operandi for a few years now.
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