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As a crude workaround, one can take screenshots of images in the app instead of using its sharing functionality. Since that yields images in screen resolution, this workaround may not be suitable in all cases.

''[Anecdote follows, is there a better place for information like this?]'' This seems especially concerning since the app recently suggested that I post a "story", by putting together its suggestion of one. In that story suggestion, it used a picture I have in my camera roll - interestingly, a picture that is years old, that actually shows me, and I'm only partially dressed - it's a picture I took in a fitting booth that did not have good mirrors available. Possibly complete coincidence, but since only a very small percentage of pictures in my camera roll actually show me, it strongly suggests some algorithmic stuff going on. Which leaves the question, does that algorithm really run completely locally on the phone, or are images uploaded to Meta that the user never OK'd for this?

In my opinion, Android [or an Open Source fork of it] could strongly use a sandbox model that would allow me to "grant" that permission to the app, without actually allowing it to access anything outside of a dedicated container that the user has complete control over.

'''Useless notifications to boost engagement and facilitate tracking'''

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 As a crude workaround, one can take screenshots of images in the app instead of using its sharing functionality. Since that yields images in screen resolution, this workaround may not be suitable in all cases.
-''[Anecdote follows, is there a better place for information like this?]'' This seems especially concerning since the app recently suggested that I post a "story", by putting together its suggestion of one. In that story suggestion, it used a picture I have in my camera roll - interestingly, a picture that is years old, that actually shows me, and I'm only partially dressed - it's a picture I took in a fitting booth that did not have good mirrors available. Possibly complete coincidence, but since only a very small percentage of pictures in my camera roll actually show me, it strongly suggests some algorithmic stuff going on. Which leaves the question, does that algorithm really run completely locally on the phone, or are images uploaded to Meta that the user never OK'd for this?
-In my opinion, Android [or an Open Source fork of it] could strongly use a sandbox model that would allow me to "grant" that permission to the app, without actually allowing it to access anything outside of a dedicated container that the user has complete control over.
 '''Useless notifications to boost engagement and facilitate tracking'''<!-- Maybe this warrants its own explanation, seeing that it has since become a commonly used dark pattern -->