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[–] Purged ago 

You can remove the code by taking a Poloroid of the image you wish to keep. Wait 10 years and it will yellow before scanning it back into a computer to repost.

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[–] MoteMoteKek11 ago 

I sent one of the many pictures of a Jew sucking a freshly cut baby penis over messenger to a group of all IRL people. The pic was taking forever to load, never sent, and within 5 minutes I was banned. I checked my buddies phones to see if it got through in person, of course it never did.

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[–] skullfuku ago 

How's that supposed to work, or what does it have to do with a tracking code?

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[–] MoteMoteKek11 ago 

Really have no idea, I can only assume our chat was being monitored after key words were used like “god damn kikes” and when they saw me try and send the photo they stopped it and banned me. It is faceberg messenger after all.

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[–] 9000timesempty ago 

All digital cameras and phones put what's called called EXIF data in all photos. Everything from GPS coordinates, the make and model of the phone/camera to the color data on the photo. But is Facebook is adding a call home though? How can that work? Wouldn't something have to know that instruction before executing it? So the instruction is for Facebook apps then. I doubt tracing outside af a Facebook environment. Facebook would have to scour and keep track of all photos online. It's more a of a "tag" really, of who in facebooks's environment, is the original owner of the photo.

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[–] cynicaloldfart ago 

Does the snipping tool in windoze remove all that?

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[–] OricaTonithos ago 

After some looking. Folks might want to scrub the things they'll consider re-posting. A quick way to drop much of this is to pull it into a photo editor like GIMP where you have some authorship over the image to tweak or remove the EXIF data before exporting to another file format i.e.: .jpg .png .bmp .gif

Or,

One way is to use a program like "ExifPilot" https://hooktube.com/watch?v=SjFEHHlOBGM

Or other tools available for free online. https://www.geckoandfly.com/7987/how-to-change-exif-data-date-and-camera-properties-with-free-editor/

This is a good one, free to use for non-commercial.. license required if commercial. https://www.xnview.com/en/xnviewmp/#downloads

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[–] LCCVC ago 

Eh.....never used faceberg. Guess I never will....hooohumm.

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[–] OricaTonithos 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Fine. I don't go to FB.. not for years.

But if I'm going to pull down a picture and re-post it in any way, I'll use an open source editor and strip it while changing the format. That should help some.

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[–] zak_the_mac 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

If they're subtly altering the actual image data, changing to another image format and deleting the metadata would not remove the tracking information

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[–] OricaTonithos ago 

That's harder to add and would add processor time for something somewhere. Processor power, although not prohibitively expensive, would add a conspicuous delay in posting. Depending on the time of day and user activity level, it would probably bog the system such that people would become aware of the practice very quickly. It'd be a little like adding a watermark in a subtle way so as to not be distractingly obvious... like a shift in the color, but problems would arise from the fact that you could easily encode such things into an image, and then have a terrible time getting a machine (or even a person) to interpret the message. Pictures are not quite like the encoded audio strip found at the edge of 16mm film for instance. It would have to be in the visible area.

I still think it would be far easier to add messaging into the built-in meta tagging info for the picture file itself. The tracking info is easily written in (or altered) when the user posts. What I think FB intends to do is make it easier for them to find their "patient zero" in the case of criminal evidence (to justify the government shekels) and to track and limit accounts used as effective "fake news" hubs and sources for counter-narrative postings and memes.

My interest in this is: We voaters (I assume) like to create content. At least, some of us do. And when we go out and grab something to alter or just re-post, we don't want to leave an easy trail for the doxxers to follow either here or even to ourselves.

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[–] EpiPendemic 1 point -1 points (+0|-1) ago 

last time I put any thought into this topic was the fiasco about celebs discovering the geotagging data for pics taken iphone3. I see a lot of value in being able to track the image itself vs just where the pic was take.

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