Please don't post a picture of yourself as an avatar.

SkawdtDawg said:
If you've used Facebook, you may be aware that whenever someone posts an image of you, it automatically tags you by facial recognition. I've actually found people on here's Facebook pages just by doing an image search of pictures of the animals they've provided, and then warned them about how easy it would be for someone with ill intentions to do the same.
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That's really nice of you to show people. Hope that those people took it to heart and are more careful
 
RexAndMe said:
This thread should be pinned. @ZTHorse
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Eh sure, I went ahead and pinned it. He can always unpin it if he wants to. I have noticed in influx of new users signing up and making this mistake. Within the past 5 days I've warned around 4 people and luckily all of them decided to take my advice.

Edit: Unless you mean pinning it as a banner, and not just pinning it to the catagory thread. I don't think I could do that, and that would be ZT's decision.
 
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FloofyNewfie said:
Not only that, but most LEOs and LEAs all over the developed world have facial recognition technology. If you have a license to operate a motor vehicle, a passport, or a government issued ID, your face can be tracked and mapped to your identity just from a picture of yourself. You don't have to even have a criminal record anymore.

There are also zoophile exposing pages on sites like "Kiwi Farms" where picture are zoos are uploaded and the identity of the poster is outsourced to a large crowd. Information from Kiwi Farms have ended up outing many zoos, some of whom were eventually arrested.
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Facial recog works on caucasians but not so much for black or brown people...but the distance between your pupils and the position they take in your head can work for most people. It doesnt need to be legal; if they get the idea its a particular person, they can develop other legal sources from there and never give up what they hit initially.
 
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Maybe there should be a rule against it? No reason not to have one, given the nature of this forum.
 
Amen, our dear brothers and sisters and the fearful hidden lives we are forced to live in this paradoxically woke-est of times that purportedly puts so much emphasis on abused minorities. Until the clouds clear, stay safe all.
 
Althoug I am not entirely against posting pictures with you in it, you need to be carefull.
I never post pictures with my face fully exposed or exposed in a way I could be identified fom and neither should you.
As for background, I don't need to worry about that, since only four people have ever been to my appartment. Two of them are computer-ïlliterates and the other two are my friends about who I am sure as hell don't just search on zoophilia forums in their free time. If this is not your case, some blanket, dull doors or cupboard can go for a good backround for your photo.
EXIF data - be careful about that one - Every photo taken on digital camera has some data stored within it - check for geolocation settings on your phone, before uploading it, or delete the data after postprocessing.
Never use the same photo for sites like this one and some regular sites and networks, terrible idea.
Have a separate e-mail for this and consider having a VPN.

However if you still feel unsafe, the best precaution is to just don't have a photo here at all, as mentioned by others. Be safe and use your head before doing anything.
 
Most of us are adults here. How about letting us decide for ourselves instead of hounding us about it?
 
JazzyJerk said:
Most of us are adults here. How about letting us decide for ourselves instead of hounding us about it?
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I'm trying to save people from themself because I WAS EXPOSED AS A ZOO AND IT WAS NOT FUN!! I was one of the lucky few that got my name cleared, but not before it did damage. People have literally had their lives destroyed getting exposed as a zoo. They get bullied on and offline, their name is forever slandered, they cannot find a decent job because most reputable companies do google searches on their potential candidates. Not everyone understands how dangerous this behavior is, many of these users are young and dumb and don't know any better. There is absolutely nothing wrong with educating people about safety online, especially if it at least helps one person from screwing themself over due to ignorance.

I have no idea why you seem to be campaigning against this? Zooville doesn't remove face pictures unless it's someone uploading a picture of someone else. But there is absolutely nothing wrong with going onto somebody's profile and letting them know of the dangers with uploading pictures of themself.
 
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There are a surprising number of people coming here who think the battles are won. Like the current gen of young ladies who think granny and mom did all that, or the crop of crazies who think they don't need to know history or civics, they think it's all taken care of. It isn't. It's not going to be safe for any of us for quite some time to come. Especially not for females....being branded a slut in a public way isnt easy to live down. If someone should care enough to offer that advice to a newb, did that hurt YOU? Nope....did it possibly help someone not as far on the path? Probably. If you want a pic, ask....worst the newb can do is say "no". I'm with floofy.
 
It's one of the reasons why I haven't posted too much of my own artwork on this site besides that one pregnant centauride with massive udders being lifted off the ground by that imp with a monster horse erection; I honestly felt like my style would be rather recognizable and be outed on a certain art site.
 
Things like "it would be too much effort to ID that face" and what has all been said in this thread are easily dismissed by google-news searches.

I could write an essay on the state of automatic face recognition today, but for what? Everyone is free to figuratively deepthroat a plutonium rod and see for themselves how that goes for them in the long run, if reading the warning labels is too hard.
 
FloofyNewfie said:
I have reached out to about 13 or 14 users so far who have posted a picture of themselves as their avatar. Some of whom claim to have animal partners. What is even more sad is that many of the women users that post these pictures tend to get posts on their wall about how beautiful and sexy they are, rather than letting them know of the danger they are putting them self in.

By posting a picture of yourself on a public forum which anyone can access as long as you know the URL and are willing to spend 5 minutes to create a ProtonMail email, you are put your very security at risk. Take it from me, a zoophile who has been exposed before for a short period of time. I didn't even have an animal partner at the time. Being exposed is NOT FUN! A few users on here have had their lives turned upside down and ruined due to being exposed as a zoophile.

Normally, if I happen to catch a user with a picture that could be them. I go onto their profile and post to their wall a message similar to this:

"Hello! If that is an actual picture of yourself that you are using as an avatar, I would remove it and replace it with something else immediately. There are profile skimmers on here looking to find identifiable information to out zoos. You are putting yourself in danger."

Thankfully, the majority of users thank me and remove the image of themselves.

I would encourage everyone to do this. If you happen to see a user on here with a photo that is most likely a picture of them self, I would reach out to them and let them know of the danger. A lot of times these users are new to the zoo community and are just starting out. They are unaware of the danger that they are potentially putting them self in, because they don't know how hunted and despised we are to the general public.
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Honestly I get SUPER weird about literally any kind of picture I put up because I always think "damn somebody might see that one random thing in the corner and just know by that who I am"
 
MalinkalyCutie said:
Honestly I get SUPER weird about literally any kind of picture I put up because I always think "damn somebody might see that one random thing in the corner and just know by that who I am"
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It's realistically very unlikely, but there is always that very small chance that something in the background of a photo could potentially get traced back to your identity. I guess in actuality it depends on what the item is. A box of Cheerios? Eh you're fine. A limited edition wolf statue? That could potentially be more identifiable. It's still a very low risk, but one I'm not really willing to take. That's why every photo I upload to this site has it's EXIF data wiped and the background blurred out.

I did mention a while back that someone ended up getting exposed due to a rare antique bed in the background of a porn video they made with their dog. So it's definitely not impossible for this type of thing to happen.
 
FloofyNewfie said:
It's realistically very unlikely, but there is always that very small chance that something in the background of a photo could potentially get traced back to your identity. I guess in actuality it depends on what the item is. A box of Cheerios? Eh you're fine. A limited edition wolf statue? That could potentially be more identifiable. It's still a very low risk, but one I'm not really willing to take. That's why every photo I upload to this site has it's EXIF data wiped and the background blurred out.

I did mention a while back that someone ended up getting exposed due to a rare antique bed in the background of a porn video they made with their dog. So it's definitely not impossible for this type of thing to happen.
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Yeah part of me knows it's unlikely, but the other part is like.... But what if..
 
FloofyNewfie said:
I have reached out to about 13 or 14 users so far who have posted a picture of themselves as their avatar. Some of whom claim to have animal partners. What is even more sad is that many of the women users that post these pictures tend to get posts on their wall about how beautiful and sexy they are, rather than letting them know of the danger they are putting them self in.

By posting a picture of yourself on a public forum which anyone can access as long as you know the URL and are willing to spend 5 minutes to create a ProtonMail email, you are put your very security at risk. Take it from me, a zoophile who has been exposed before for a short period of time. I didn't even have an animal partner at the time. Being exposed is NOT FUN! A few users on here have had their lives turned upside down and ruined due to being exposed as a zoophile.

Normally, if I happen to catch a user with a picture that could be them. I go onto their profile and post to their wall a message similar to this:

"Hello! If that is an actual picture of yourself that you are using as an avatar, I would remove it and replace it with something else immediately. There are profile skimmers on here looking to find identifiable information to out zoos. You are putting yourself in danger."

Thankfully, the majority of users thank me and remove the image of themselves.

I would encourage everyone to do this. If you happen to see a user on here with a photo that is most likely a picture of them self, I would reach out to them and let them know of the danger. A lot of times these users are new to the zoo community and are just starting out. They are unaware of the danger that they are potentially putting them self in, because they don't know how hunted and despised we are to the general public.
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It's a good idea to throw a bit of misinformation now and then to throw people off. I'm not a liar(hate liars), but misinformation may safe your arse.
 
Wasbitchpolly said:
My avatar is of me but as long as i don’t go out with them hanging out I should be ok 😂😂
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Your girls are fine. The biggest concern is people that post facial pastures of themselves or pictures with identifiable backgrounds. Those types of avatars can potentially get people in trouble, as that stuff can be traced back to you.
 
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