“Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a built-in “Send to YouTube” button in the Photos app. Many of these uploads kept their default IMG_XXXX filenames, creating a time capsule of raw, unedited moments from random lives.”

One of these good examples of failed privacy, have fun…

  • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
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    22 days ago

    How is this an example of failed privacy?

    YouTube is a video sharing site. People pushed a button to share their videos. They wanted people to see these.

    These videos aren’t much different than what you find on Facebook or Instagram today, it’s just that over the past decade people have gotten better at naming and categorizing what they post.

    The real quirk here is that the app made it way too easy to upload the default filenames, so we can now search for them specifically like a little time capsule.

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    This is the equivalent of buying an old camcorder at the thrift store and finding some random family’s tape still in it of some kid’s birthday party from 1994.

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    Holy shit I got this one:

    I’m trying to work out if it’s real or not. It’s from 2013, so I guess VFX wasn’t so great back then, but then… where? and when? and why?

    Edit: I’ve been duped by mediocre graphics, don’t worry I’m writing my will as we speak.

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      I remember this app.

      It was an app called “Action Movie” by the Bad Robot studios people. It overlaid effects on top of what you recorded with the camera and this was one of the free effects.

      It’s 100% fake because nothing happens to the other cars. They don’t explode out of the way, they don’t anything. They all just sit there.

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      If you pause it in the middle, you can see the explosion is clearly a clip laid over the car video.

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    Found a funny one of an Eastern European kid in blue shorts spinning himself around to make himself dizzy. I remember doing the same thing when I was a kid.

    Then YouTube started blocking the videos because it thought I was a bot:/