I only want to use it for facebook marketplace, but jeez i didnt know they were taking it this far with this crap…
wdym? facebook automatically showed us it used facial recognition at least as far back as 2007 by asking us to click boxes on faces and subsequently asking us to label them… We really did all of the heavy lifting for them. -I got out while i could in ~2018
I never got in, and I stopped letting people take pictures of me so they couldn’t put me on there either.
Facebook has new users?
the facial pictures
Perhaps there are local classifieds or marketplaces you could use? For example, one of the local news services in my area runs one that’s well known and active.
I really need a car and to sell some shit I’m not using for money, that site is so hostile I said fuck it, facebook market place isn’t worth it. whose got a worth while alternative?
In the UK, auto-trader is used to sell used cars. I guess eBay or Gumtree (if it still exists) to sell stuff?
Check local alternatives. I use Bazos (though it’s only has support for Slovakia, Czechia, Poland and for Austria)
Craigslist still has people on it, if you learn how to filter out the scammers.
It’s been like that for quite a while. I remember deleting all big-tech accounts in 2019, and shortly after, Facebook started requiring login for full public page access. Therefore I created a burner account using a ‘this person does not exist’ picture, which provided me short-lived access after manual review. For account recovery, I was required to supply additional selfies (or even video-selfies?), but at that point I gave up.
One wit responded to such requests for ID by sending in a picture of an id with pharoh ramsey’s mummy’s picture, birthdate thousands bc.
I never agreed to give them my personal information. My emails forced me to, locking me out of accounts I needed to access.
I now found alternative email that doesn’t need a phone number or linked other email. I am quitting every site that tried to force me to link my phone number, real name, likeness, id, address, anything like that, without a valid reason.
Amazon just demanded I verify my account again, same ip, same account I’ve used for years. Verifying under the email I abandoned for forcing my phone verification periodically, that would lock me out of my accounts if I lost my phone or it’s service. Trying to make good on my threats to quit them too.
My emails forced me to, locking me out of accounts I needed to access.
Microsoft had me fill this form, to “prove” I was the rightful owner of the account, after some suspicious login-attempts from an African country. The form included fields like: name (I don’t think I supplied at creation, or a false one), other email addresses, previous passwords (which potentially yield completely unrelated passwords), etc.; only for the application to be rejected and locking me out of my primary email for a full month. After that outright violation, I immediately switched to Disroot, and haven’t had any of said problems ever since. I backup all its contents locally using Thunderbird, and delete the origins from the server afterwards.
Many platforms have this messed up dark pattern, of revoking one’s access to a real-world dependencies, unless giving in to the service’s demands. Enforcement of 2FA is another one of those “excuses” for this type of misbehavior, and so is bot-detection.
THIS!
I tried this to get an account. This was back in 2021. My account was deleted immediately. Probably a mixture of name and face. Maybe. But F that.
Yeah, I think they employ a pretty sophisticated bot detection algorithm. I vaguely remember there being this ‘make 5 friends’ objective, or something along those lines, which I had no intention of fulfilling. If a new account, having triggered the manual reviewing process, doesn’t adhere to common usage patterns, simply have them supply additional information. Any collateral damage simply means additional data, to be appended to Facebook’s self-profiling platform… I mean, what else would one expect when Facebook’s first outside investor was Palentir’s Peter Thiel?
I thought they’ve always been doing it, I never succeeded creating a facebook account because of it
I have mixed feelings. Setting aside that Meta is a trash company, I wish no one used it, but unfortunately, it has replaced Craigslist in the US.
I see A LOT of fake accounts on facebook. I’ve seen people I know get all their photos stolen and used to scam men online. I’ve seen random clones of other accounts for people I know slinging crypto scams.
Facebook needs to do something about that. There are too many media illiterate people on Facebook to do nothing.
That said, I’d rather this not be the way they handled it.
Facebook is acutely aware of the scams and actively encourages it.
You describe a lot of terrible experience but also explain that it is a necessity because it has replaced Craigslist.
I’d assume one can manage without an online marketplace when given conditions like these?
I too miss the Facebook marketplace but I wouldn’t give in to all this crap just to have access to it
after years of getting timeouts and jail for minor cussing, the robots perma-banned me with no explanation, just a link to community standards. was pretty tired of the endless bot/slop/spam in most groups. keep that self-clicking robot swarm. family has my number.
I didn’t think people still opened new user accounts on facebook
More people gently creep into dementia every day.
Imagine you volunteer in an organization where they mentor programming for people in second and third world countries.
And after reading your background with programming and learning that you are originally from one such country and also that you are bilingual for the one single country they currently operate to, they make you the social media manager and ask to make their facebook page where they post AI generated images and then forget about it in like 4 weeks.
They never started the mentorship program. Yes I am still pissed about it, how can you tell?
Facebook marketing across high schools and colleges is intense. And because it’s such a pivotal platform, you kinda need to get one and build up a - let’s call it a social credit score - just so you can endure admittance counselors and employers demanding to see your account as part of the screening process.
Sort of like getting a credit card as a teenager so you can prove you’re credit worthy enough for an apartment or car loan in your twenties. You just have to post generic mundane bullshit on the timeline and join generic mundane groups so people see you as “normal”.
Employers demand to see your facebook account? That sounds illegal.
Absolutely nothing in the rules against it. “Being Offline” isn’t a protected class.
Unfortunately, Facebook Marketplace is still a relatively popular Craigslist alt.
I just pull a recent #selfie post from Twitter and upload it with metadata stripped
Doesn’t work. They ask you to use the camera and have you turn you head in different directions.
I am sure the plan is to eventually roll this out to everyone.
Last time I used facebook they required me to send in a legal ID after a couple months of being registered, which locked me out of my oculus quest 2 headset back when they required facebook accounts and weren’t called meta.
“they required you”
Have you never thought that you can actually NOT do these things?
I mean, sure, maybe you had a good reason and you felt it was fine. But I wonder how many people just do what the screen tells them without realizing they can actually say no and be ok with the consequences.
Well I didn’t send it in. I just got oculus support to separate my facebook account from my oculus account, which at the time new standalone oculus accounts were not able to be created. So I found the only loop hole to make a new standalone oculus account.
This account was eventually migrated to the meta account system and still works while my facebook account still doesn’t work.
Were you using a VPN when you signed up?
It seems to just do this now. I tried to make a marketplace account and it demanded a video selfie. Needless to say that didn’t happen
Upload verification video of drinking verification can
Doritos dew it right!
What’s next, mandatory DNA swabs for personalized ad experience?
New flash: if you are not paying for the product, you’re the product.
