• MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    6 days ago

    Yeah. Generally I’d say this was a silly way to do it obviously (and that’s probably still the case here) but it might not be the worst idea if you don’t want anything linking back to the original phone like a photo message in your chat history etc. So long as you scrub the exif/photo meta data it doesn’t risk a link with the person whose phone screen the original picture is on.

    • Copyrighted media is often watermarked with imperceptible details that are unique to each viewer and can be traced back to prevent leaks or piracy (think how focus groups get a highly visible transparent uuid plastered over their video). No idea if that technology is in use here or if the information loss from the photo of a photo is enough to remove the watermark, however.

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        6 days ago

        This is true, but from the looks of this one I’d guess it’s a hastily snapped picture from a bystander keeping a decent distance away (the low res zoom, bad framing etc).