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      1. …in reply to @designnotdrum
        designnotdrum karineb cwodtke I had not, thanks for linking! It looks like this has been going on for a while. I'll have to dig in further, but it looks like this has to do with tracking input and output from Facebook itself. robleathern might connect us to someone who could comment. Chronotope/1150456247801569280?s=19
    1. …in reply to @Chronotope
      designnotdrum karineb cwodtke robleathern Impressively, Forbes has already turned this around into an article. So perhaps we'll hear an actual comment on it from Facebook soon. forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/07/14/facebook-is-embedding-hidden-codes-to-track-all-your-uploaded-photos-report/
      OpenGraph image for forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/07/14/facebook-is-embedding-hidden-codes-to-track-all-your-uploaded-photos-report/
  1. …in reply to @Chronotope
    designnotdrum karineb cwodtke robleathern All that said, I find it is unlikely this would be of much use tracking an image outside of the platform unless they find it in a page they are otherwise crawling or someone re uploaded it to Facebook. Those types of codes, to my knowledge, cannot phone home.


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