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Tamaya
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16 Jun 2025, 10:26 am

kokopelli wrote:
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I think Blitzkrieg means someone on a site like Facebook might save someone else's photos that they posted on their timeline on to their phone then use that photo as their profile picture on a dating site.

I'm not sure if photos like that are able to be found on Google?


You might have a point. I did several image searches for my nephew that appeared on Facebook and didn't find them. I did see some photos on Facebook, though, so it isn't absolute.

That said, you don't know if you'll find it until you look. If it is there but nobody looks, then don't expect a lot of sympathy.


But how would you know what words to use in the search bar to find the photo if it's from another person's Facebook page? It's very easy to hold your finger down on someone else's photo on Facebook and a menu comes up with the option to save it to your phone. Unless there's a way of getting a web address from the profile picture on the dating site and then the Facebook page comes up? But even then the person's Facebook page who they stole it from could be set on private so you couldn't view it or something maybe. I'm not very technical savvy so ignore me if I'm wrong lol.


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16 Jun 2025, 10:27 am

blitzkrieg wrote:
Cornflake wrote:
This:
blitzkrieg wrote:
They might have been on social networks and have stolen other people's photos, for later usage in scams.
contradicts this:
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Such photos wouldn't be typically be revealed by a Google search.

If scammers were able to steal other people's photos then Google would be able to use them in an image search.
IOW if they're publically accessible for stealing they're publically accessible to Google and will show up in searches.


See my response to Tamaya.

I meant the stealing could be done privately whilst a scammer was on the friends list of someone on social media who had their photos set to be 'friends only' (not available to people who aren't their friends on social media or on a Google search).


Yes that's what I was trying to say.


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16 Jun 2025, 10:37 am

blitzkrieg wrote:
A private photo on a social media website wouldn't show up in a Google search, but a scammer could have been on the friends list of someone who had their photos set to private, but as a friend would have access to those photos/could download them, which non-friends cannot.
Ah, gotcha. I was going by publically accessible photos only.
I've never used Faecesbook.


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16 Jun 2025, 10:55 am

Cornflake wrote:
blitzkrieg wrote:
A private photo on a social media website wouldn't show up in a Google search, but a scammer could have been on the friends list of someone who had their photos set to private, but as a friend would have access to those photos/could download them, which non-friends cannot.
Ah, gotcha. I was going by publically accessible photos only.
I've never used Faecesbook.


You are not missing anything. The whole thing is a privacy minefield as you can imagine.



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16 Jun 2025, 3:31 pm

Tamaya wrote:
But how would you know what words to use in the search bar to find the photo if it's from another person's Facebook page?


In Google Image Search, there is the ability to drag and drop or to upload a photo and search on that photo. It can be quite useful.

At https://images.google.com/, notice that in the search box on the far right there is an icon that kind of resembles a camera. If you hover the cursor over it, you should see "Search by Image".

It gives you three options:
1) "Drag an image here"
2) "Upload a file"
3) "Paste image link"

It uses the picture you provide as the search criteria, not some typed in search terms.

But yeah. If it is on a private Facebook page, you might not find it. It doesn't hurt to try, though. It's really quite easy to do and shouldn't take long at all to do. It's so simple that there is no reason not to do it.