For those who don't want to use "Pocket"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/parenting/2024/04/08/parenting-keeping-kids-offline/
this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2024
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As the internet gets scarier
How the fuck is the internet getting scarier? This isn't the random gore and porn filled, go to a forum and immediately get targeted by a sex-predator, internet that I grew up with. The internet is a corporate walled garden of mega services that feed disinformation and bullshit to people, but your odds of getting genuinely victimized as a child are so much lower than they used to be.
It's not, it's just that with enough mainstream media coverage about scary internet stories normies are slowly waking up to what the internet is and how you should conduct yourself on it. Of course any terminally online person could have told you that 20 years ago but those are not most people. Hell even if you do know better good luck convincing your family, I know I tried for years with negligible results other than one of them now using a password manager.
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On the flip side, search for "mom run" or "parent run" on Instagram to see the kids whose parents have decided to parade in front of thousands of people online. Usually moms posting their little girls in leotards and swimsuits for their mostly mostly adult male followers... 🤢🤮
But don't worry, Meta isn't complicit, if you search "child model" they give you a scary child abuse warning message.
Someone else on Lemmy pointed this out a while back, and after seeing it for myself that firmly solidified my decision to stay the fuck away from anything Meta does.
Why "run"?
Run as in "mom runs this account".
"Mom managed" also gets results.
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I have not posted a single photo of my kids on any platform for this reason. My wife on the other hand thinks I'm overly paranoid, so thanks to her, Zuck has a ton of photos of them...
Here's a real screenshot from Instagram.
Oh my
Is that a porn genAI ad next to photos of underage kids? 💀
Yeah...
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Is the internet scarier?
Or is it just millennials and "internet natives" having kids and more of them knowing better what the internet actually is.
I tell people to imagine a public place with everyone in it, the majority wearing masks or costumes. With constantly recording surveillance. Do you take off your mask.
Sure the mask is not perfect protection, and there are areas off to the side where people seem to not be wearing masks. But go ahead and choose a way to keep your kids safe.
Here in Belgium it's been pretty much the norm, both in friends groups or in institutions like schools that ask more formally, that one does not post photos online without the consent of all participants, including that of kids and their guardians. This is particularly the case for sharing publicly e.g Facebook post but also WhatsApp group.
It's a mess but habits are changing at scale.
Storing offline is great and all, but I hope everyone is storing on multiple disks at multiple locations....
Yer didn't think so, I'm sure photos are being lost.
Everyone loses data once before they understand how important backups are.
If only that happening once was enough to learn from our mistakes.
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No backup? No pity!
I share my photos with friends and family using a normal webhost.
I used to upload my artsy photos to DeviantArt, but a year ago I had enough with how slow it had become, so I set up my own small lightweight website using a simple HTML/CSS menu and galleries generated by digiKam that also uses very light jacascript for navigation.
It is blazingly fast and private enough for me.
Until its used to train AI
Not to mention it is probably getting archived by the internet archive (no hate for the internet archive I think its a great idea)
I believe google does respect robots.txt, as for other services I don't know.
Still on iCloud, Google Drive and OneDrive. No way these people know how to store photos offline on their phone.
I think it would be cool if there was more products that allowed this
At our place we only share photos of the kids with grandparents/aunts/uncles via group chat. They’re the only group that “necessarily” needs to see the kids.
Let me guess, the group chat is WhatsApp or iMessage, so Facebook or Apple gets to see them too.
Not even close—it’s Skype! We aren’t able to teach a 98yo great grandma to use something else from overseas, so Microsoft gets the cake.
Well its better that posting it publicly
Whatsapp is E2E encrypted isn't it.
"Encrypted"
Isn't the option to backup whatsapp data to Gdrive encrypted opt-in?
But the app is closed source, so you can't know that Facebook isn't intercepting it at either end.
Exactly, both end points are blackboxes compromised by Facebook.
And their " legitimate partners"