this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2025
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[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Heh. "Starting to" my ass. They're starting to let it seep into the public consciousness via engineered media activity — including this "article". 🤢🖕🏼

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Always, everytime I pressed attach picture and they pulled up my pics in their viewer I knew.

[–] BoobaAwooga@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Just wait until people realize they’re probably feeding it camera roll photos that aren’t even in the apps. Lots of people just give the apps access to their photo gallery sooooo

[–] BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 6 points 2 weeks ago

Reminder to set permissions on Android to specific photos only for Meta apps.

[–] ter_maxima@jlai.lu 9 points 2 weeks ago

So you're telling me we can poison it by mass uploading private photos poisoned with Nightshade, while not polluting the public internet at all ? Seems like a good offensive strategy !