Flickr now is auto tagging my stuff.

BackdoorArts

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sonicbuffalo said:
@BackdoorHippie.....this sounds promising from Flickr: "What’s next for tags?
We will continue working to constantly improve this feature. Flickr’s tags may evolve as the image recognition technology becomes more accurate and as the algorithm learns to recognize additional concepts. We also want to bring more control to you, so we plan to add tools soon to allow you to batch edit these new tags."
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That's very different from opting out. What they want is for you to use their tags so that it helps refine the image recognition s/w. Keep the tag and it confirms their application of it and verifies the engine. Delete it and it tells them it might not have been accurate. I don't want to "batch edit", I want to never have to deal with them. They shouldn't make work for me because of something they do.
 
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free is never entirely free. There is always a corporation with a large stick ready to use as a prod to roto root your arse. I was thinking of going over to Photobucket, but it's worse. It doesn't auto tag but images aren't very sharp. Any other suggestions?
 
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RocketCowboy said:
There is always an "opt out". It's called using a different service. ;) Guess Yahoo is catching up with Google on abusing the users of their services.


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Thanks. As soon as I find another service with a free TB storage. It doesn't really bother me personally that much, I was just bringing attention to it.
 
Horoscope Fish

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Well I'm looking hard at 500px, currently. The free account offers unlimited storage but is throttled to 20 uploads in any seven-day period. The first year of a paid membership is $21 and gets you into unlimited upload territory; following that it's $24 annually. $2 a month I can swing.

People bitch about the the community and voting system but I don't care about that; I just want reliable, accessible, online storage and display.

This is looking like where I'll wind up.
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Horoscope Fish said:
Well I'm looking hard at 500px, currently. The free account offers unlimited storage but is throttled to 20 uploads in any seven-day period. The first year of a paid membership is $21 and gets you into unlimited upload territory. Following that it's $24 annually and $2 a month I can swing. People bitch about the the community and voting system but I don't care about that; I just want reliable, accessible, online storage and display. This is looking like where I'll wind up.
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I have a free account over there as well, but I'm always reluctant to put up my stuff . It's more of a professional site and I'm afraid my stuff is not up to par yet.
 
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According to Yahoo, we are supposed to be able to remove any specific tag name from all of our photos, yet it doesn't appear to work like they indicate. The auto tags aren't showing up in the list.

The following info comes from this link: https://help.yahoo.com/kb/flickr/tag-keywords-flickr-sln7455.html

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sonicbuffalo said:
A friendly reminder.....it's still a Beta testing phase.

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I am quite well aware of that; however, since the directions are not valid, Yahoo should remove them until the process works. Just one additional reason to not like this Beta testing. Besides I didn't ask to participate as a Beta tester. ;)
 
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hark said:
I am quite well aware of that; however, since the directions are not valid, Yahoo should remove them until the process works. Just one additional reason to not like this Beta testing. Besides I didn't ask to participate as a Beta tester. ;)
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I'm still not really upset about this. Uploaded a flower and it tagged it right on the money. Even depth of field. If I was to do this on a professional level, I would not be using Flickr in the first place, but have my own website.
 
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Blacktop said:
I'm still not really upset about this. Uploaded a flower and it tagged it right on the money. Even depth of field. If I was to do this on a professional level, I would not be using Flickr in the first place, but have my own website.
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Pete, did you ever read this thread? It helps explain the merits of tagging on Flickr. However, with everyone's photos getting tagged (with some of those being tagged incorrectly), it may reduce the views for those whose photos are especially good.

http://nikonites.com/photography-business/27948-flickr.html#axzz3ZgEks09B
 
BackdoorArts

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hark said:
According to Yahoo, we are supposed to be able to remove any specific tag name from all of our photos, yet it doesn't appear to work like they indicate. The auto tags aren't showing up in the list.

The following info comes from this link: https://help.yahoo.com/kb/flickr/tag-keywords-flickr-sln7455.html

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This refers to deleting one tag at a time in both instances. In the first it's simply deleting a tag associated with your photo, either one you added or one they did. In the second it lists all the tags you've applied (not theirs) and it allows you to delete that specific tag from every photo you've applied them to. If you want to delete it from some then it's all one at a time - and again, none of their tags are even visible in bulk.

Beta or not, they're not going to make it easy for you to opt out of their information collection and algorithm checking scheme.

Flickr is really an image dump for me and moving to 500px or 1X is not an option for what I use Flickr for. Is it truly a "big deal", as I've sort of made it out to be? Logistically it isn't. But from a serving the photographer/artist point of view it certainly is - it's a huge deal. I suspect they care very little, particularly since those voicing complaints aren't paying a dime for the service.
 
coolbus18

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I just noticed it today and it was accurate. I thought the tag, minimalist , was funny tagged to a plane overhead with the props stopped. Yeah I'm too lazy to tag also!
 
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Just noticed this on mine as well, says it's in Beta at the momet. Got mine pretty accurate although I normally tag myself so would probably add to or change them as required.
 
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Does anyone use SmugMug? I used to use it, and will probably activate my account again. I really liked the layout, the storage, pretty much everything. I don't mind a few bucks a month for quality image hosting.

I have to admit, the new changes to Flickr made it a ton better than it used to be. I remember when your old photo's would just drop off and the only way you could get back to them is if you had the hard link for the image saved somewhere, total pain in the ass.
 
Horoscope Fish

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RocketCowboy said:
Interesting review of the Flickr 4.0 changes. Not sure I agree with the author on it, but an interesting perspective either way.
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All they had to do was make it easy to opt-out, but nooooooooooo...

The whole thing about some of the tags being "racist", though, is just about stupid on too many levels to count in my opinion.
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