I was browsing through Facebook on my phone the other evening when i saw this in my news feed.
Its an advert for FOCBOX by Enertion.
Nothing unusual about that, I see these often. The thing that caught my eye is that the enclosure in the picture looked oddly familiar, its mine.
Then I realised that it might not be just me and that the other “diy” images that im seeing are probably being used without the consent of their builders.
So this leads me to 2 possible conclusions:
1 - Facebook is taking photos off my phone, tagging them and using them in targeted advertising (somewhat unlikely).
2 - Enertion is taking pictures from this site and uploading them to facebook to use as advertising without asking or even notifying the original creators.
This site exists purely for enertion’s use for SEO and marketing. That’s the reason @onloop won’t let the community pay for it. It’s a fair trade – we get this, they get that.
Well you said this was not a picture that you took yourself, but its your enclosure right? Enertion never did an advert for “your product” even if using the image, once you sell a product people don’t need your permission to photograph it. Someone could have taken a picture with focboxes and your enclosure to show off their build and enertion may have just liked the image is my thoughts. That said, I’d take pride that people are showing off your stuff!
I would take it with a grain of salt and consider that people might actually see the ad and then bother them about where to get that enclosure, could be free advertising for you
Though there is a good way and a bad way to use others’ photos whether or not it is actually “required”
I had some Popocas on my Boosted Board back before I had a real ride and @chaka reached out and asked if he could use the image. He even sent me some cool stuff.
Did he need to? No. But it was a damn classy move, and it meant a lot to me.
@Sender i agree. it wouldn’t cost them much time just to ask and im sure most people would be flattered that they wanted to use an image. Something like A few % discount code might go a long way in good will.
