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Facebook buying Giphy is a data harvesting play to see what people are saying and doing on services run by Facebook's competitors. https://t.co/DR0lNE9eXn
— ????? ? ?????? (@jamespmcleod) May 15, 2020
Time to disconnect Giphy from enterprise social tools like Teams and Slack. Your corporate chat streams are going to be full of Facebook tracking beacons if you don't...
— Simon Bisson #StayHome (@sbisson) May 15, 2020
My take: Facebook buying Giphy is less about engagement and more about data. Think about it: Even if FB can’t see the private messages you’re sending, if they can see the GIFs you’re searching for, they get a clue about how you’re thinking & feeling. https://t.co/4wxaS9gqQX
— Jon Fortt (@jonfortt) May 15, 2020
My first thought: there is now a Facebook product built into Signal https://t.co/JFoAX4mpSj
— William Turton (@WilliamTurton) May 15, 2020
"The site will continue to operate." Yep, I'm sure it will :) -> How Facebook Could Use Giphy to Collect Your Data
— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) May 16, 2020
"Giphy wraps each of its animated GIFs in a special format that helps the image load faster, and also embeds a tiny piece of Javascript..." https://t.co/TrAPRuUDvu pic.twitter.com/d45Pz0AlKj
Now that Giphy has been acquired by FB, many have reached out to ask whether we should be concerned about Giphy search in Signal.
— Moxie Marlinspike (@moxie) May 15, 2020
Signal already uses a privacy preserving approach to prevent gif search providers from receiving user data:https://t.co/PhfdHb9aJ0
Now is an excellent time to uninstall Giphy in all of your tool sets and services. They’re still going to get tons of data on your usage, but no need to continue to feed it. https://t.co/aJRIua8qEb
— Glenn White (@justicar) May 15, 2020
Well, time for a Giphy alternative.
— Corey Quinn (@QuinnyPig) May 15, 2020
“I don’t trust Facebook” is an incredible understatement. They’re effectively a criminal enterprise at this point. https://t.co/L1hnyUlRFd
Gif directories are of no intrinsic monetary value except by providing additional value to other services; withdrawing that value from those other services; or using the download process to track you across the web. Have fun watching that integration.
— Aram Zucker-Scharff (@Chronotope) May 15, 2020
Given Facebook's GIPHY acquisition, Signal's highly engineered privacy preservation for something "frivolous" like gif search seems pretty prescient https://t.co/VrqRNWmMJA pic.twitter.com/p8FNiPn7Bw
— Parker Higgins (@xor) May 15, 2020
Giphy wraps each of its GIFs in a format that helps images load faster, and also embeds a tiny piece of Javascript that lets the company know where the image is being loaded, as well as a tracking identifier that helps follow your browsing across the web. https://t.co/Ocz262Bxk0
— OneZero (@ozm) May 15, 2020
"Giphy provides the same search service to many of Facebook’s competitors, Apple Inc.’s iMessage, Twitter, Signal, TikTok & others. The company has a view of the health of those platforms and how often people use them, which is exactly the kind of insight Facebook values most..." https://t.co/mRqQCD05vw
— Josh Eidelson (@josheidelson) May 15, 2020
So giphy is just surveillance wrapped in copyright violations masked as a shared language using advertising as culture https://t.co/2mu4jFB5eP
— People need money, not jobs (@bran_dj) May 16, 2020
If you use Giphy, you need to read this story about all the data it collects when you use its gifs. With today's acquisition, all of that data will become Facebook's. https://t.co/wRDXNtZjK2 pic.twitter.com/R4WBWSmAqI
— Will Oremus (@WillOremus) May 16, 2020
How exactly Facebook will collect, store, and use that data is not clear yet, as far as I can tell. For what it's worth they told @lmatsakis they won't tie it to specific individuals. That's the kind of thing we'd probably want to see in writing somewhere. https://t.co/O5dvJ6Cmcf pic.twitter.com/4SdRXnle6m
— Will Oremus (@WillOremus) May 16, 2020
Facebook’s Giphy acquisition might have big implications for iMessage and Twitter https://t.co/9SCWsagODU pic.twitter.com/sKX4KTCYEh
— The Verge (@verge) May 16, 2020
If you use Giphy, you need to read this story about all the data it collects when you use its gifs. With today's acquisition, all of that data will become Facebook's. https://t.co/wRDXNtZjK2 pic.twitter.com/R4WBWSmAqI
— Will Oremus (@WillOremus) May 16, 2020
My analysis: With the Giphy buy, Facebook will get a ton of insight into how people are using Twitter, iMessage, Slack, TikTok, etc. And that's why it's worth it to buy them, not just invest. https://t.co/GhnVt00msF
— Sarah Frier (@sarahfrier) May 15, 2020
How exactly Facebook will collect, store, and use that data is not clear yet, as far as I can tell. For what it's worth they told @lmatsakis they won't tie it to specific individuals. That's the kind of thing we'd probably want to see in writing somewhere. https://t.co/O5dvJ6Cmcf pic.twitter.com/4SdRXnle6m
— Will Oremus (@WillOremus) May 16, 2020
I wrote about what Facebook will do with Giphy, which is probably collect data about its rivals!!! <insert antitrust reaction gif> https://t.co/mKtKWlkQNs
— Louise Matsakis (@lmatsakis) May 15, 2020
Kiinnostavaa. Facebook ilmoitti ostavansa GIF-kuvien Googlen Giphyn. "Facebook says it will not collect information specific to individual people using Giphy’s API, but it will get valuable data about usage patterns across the web." https://t.co/AOysAgrZTI
— Juuso Pekkinen (@iuso) May 16, 2020
well this suckshttps://t.co/f48JxyEUIj
— The Inglourious Gent (@thesnarkygent) May 16, 2020
Giphy에 포함된 메타데이터(어떤 검색어로 무슨 영상을 택하는가 등)로 Facebook이 좋은 데이터세트를 얻게 될 거라는 분석. https://t.co/AZE1ngJyPi
— 나가토 유키 (@nagato708) May 16, 2020
How #Facebook Could Use #Giphy to Collect Your #Data - OneZero https://t.co/WgQxhwGTCa #privacy #gdpr #DSGVO #Datenschutz
— Paul Nemitz (@PaulNemitz) May 16, 2020
Why Facebook’s $400m acquisition of GIPHY was a smart move on many levels https://t.co/X3FCoRpzNW
— Matt Navarra | ? #StayAtHome (@MattNavarra) May 16, 2020
GIF検索サービスのGiphyが、Facebookに買収されたことで、Twitterに影響が出る可能性が浮上。Instagram買収時は、友達を見つける機能や写真プレビュー機能が削除されるなど、決して仲が良いとは言えない2社。なおTwitterのGIFはTenorというサービスも併用しているhttps://t.co/hlr2sBPB5x
— Metgebra (@metgebradotcom) May 17, 2020