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===Exploitation of pinned images (circa 2012)===

As content from creators are nonconsensually "pinned" to the platform, since 2012,<ref name=":1" /> if not earlier, Pinterest claims rights inside its TOS<ref name=":2" /><ref>Kalliopi Monoyios (March 19, 2012). "[http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2012/03/19/pinterests-terms-of-service-word-by-terrifying-word/ Pinterest's Terms of Service, Word by Terrifying Word]". ''Scientific American''. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120523164313/http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2012/03/19/pinterests-terms-of-service-word-by-terrifying-word/ Archived] from the original on May ~~23,~~ 2012. Retrieved ~~March~~ 10, 2025.</ref> to:<blockquote>By making available any Member Content through the Site, Application or Services, you hereby grant to Cold Brew Labs a worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free license, with the right to sublicense, to use, copy, adapt, *modify, distribute, license, sell, transfer, publicly display, publicly perform, transmit, stream, broadcast, access, view, and otherwise exploit such Member Content only on, through or by means of the Site, Application or Services.</blockquote>In simpler terms, this means that any content uploaded to Pinterest can be freely used by the platform and its users in any manner. Given the platform's history of hosting content without explicit consent, this raises concerns that creators' works may be overridden in search feeds<ref name=":0" /> and copyrights overridden for unauthorized purposes by other publishers.<ref name=":0" />

As content from creators are nonconsensually "pinned" to the platform, since 2012,<ref name=":1" /> if not earlier, Pinterest claims rights inside its TOS<ref name=":2" /><ref>Kalliopi Monoyios (March 19, 2012). "[http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2012/03/19/pinterests-terms-of-service-word-by-terrifying-word/ Pinterest's Terms of Service, Word by Terrifying Word]". ''Scientific American''. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120523164313/http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2012/03/19/pinterests-terms-of-service-word-by-terrifying-word/ Archived] from the original on 23 May 2012. Retrieved 10 Mar 2025.</ref> to:<blockquote>By making available any Member Content through the Site, Application or Services, you hereby grant to Cold Brew Labs a worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free license, with the right to sublicense, to use, copy, adapt, *modify, distribute, license, sell, transfer, publicly display, publicly perform, transmit, stream, broadcast, access, view, and otherwise exploit such Member Content only on, through or by means of the Site, Application or Services.</blockquote>In simpler terms, this means that any content uploaded to Pinterest can be freely used by the platform and its users in any manner. Given the platform's history of hosting content without explicit consent, this raises concerns that creators' works may be overridden in search feeds<ref name=":0" /> and copyrights overridden for unauthorized purposes by other publishers.<ref name=":0" />

=== Excessive advertising ===

For years, dozens of users have reported excessive advertising on Pinterest <ref>{{Cite web |date=2022 |title=Why every single pin is an ad? |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/Pinterest/comments/ub9sq0/why_every_single_pin_is_an_ad/ |website=Reddit}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web |date=2023 |title=Increased Amount of Ads on Pinterest? |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/Pinterest/comments/18b9vga/increased_amount_of_ads_on_pinterest/ |website=Reddit}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024 |title=Why in the world does Pinterest have so many ads?[...] |url=https://www.quora.com/Why-in-the-world-does-Pinterest-have-so-many-ads-It-bothers-me-when-I-m-trying-to-look-at-a-recipe-etc-and-all-these-ads-pop-up-Is-there-any-way-to-get-rid-of-those |website=Quora}}</ref>, going as far back as 2015<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015 |title=Has Pinterest gotten much worse since the ads? |url=https://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/563260-has-pinterest-gotten-much-worse-since-the-ads/ |website=The Well-Trained Mind Community}}</ref>. Many online posts describe how the excessive ads ruin the user experience and have led to the abandonment of the platform altogether. One user states, "Due to the bombarding of ads on Pinterest, I went from scrolling through pins for hours to scrolling through pins for less than 5 seconds and then closing the apps"<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |date=2023 |title=Increased Amount of Ads on Pinterest? |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/Pinterest/comments/18b9vga/increased_amount_of_ads_on_pinterest/ |website=Reddit}}</ref>.

An article on Android Authority describes how a platform for hobbies and crafts turned into a hub for discovering products (often on Amazon), which first began around 2013 and was then ramped up two years later as the platform shifted to a social e-commerce site<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dalul |first=Suzana |date=20 Feb 2020 |title=Pinterest: How a once inspiring social media app was ruined by ads |url=https://www.androidauthority.com/pinterest-ads-1065432/ |website=Android Authority}}</ref>. The platform even introduced a feature called Shoppable Pins, which uses hovering to show items in a picture while linking to external retail sites. These Shoppable Pins are treated as content rather than advertisements, which the article then goes on to say, "This is dishonest and misleading, and makes for an even worse experience than constantly being bombarded by pins from popular brands any time you search for something."

==See also==

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 ===Exploitation of pinned images (circa 2012)===
-As content from creators are nonconsensually "pinned" to the platform, since 2012,<ref name=":1" /> if not earlier, Pinterest claims rights inside its TOS<ref name=":2" /><ref>Kalliopi Monoyios (March 19, 2012). "[http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2012/03/19/pinterests-terms-of-service-word-by-terrifying-word/ Pinterest's Terms of Service, Word by Terrifying Word]". ''Scientific American''. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120523164313/http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2012/03/19/pinterests-terms-of-service-word-by-terrifying-word/ Archived] from the original on May 23, 2012. Retrieved March 10, 2025.</ref> to:<blockquote>By making available any Member Content through the Site, Application or Services, you hereby grant to Cold Brew Labs a worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free license, with the right to sublicense, to use, copy, adapt, *modify, distribute, license, sell, transfer, publicly display, publicly perform, transmit, stream, broadcast, access, view, and otherwise exploit such Member Content only on, through or by means of the Site, Application or Services.</blockquote>In simpler terms, this means that any content uploaded to Pinterest can be freely used by the platform and its users in any manner. Given the platform's history of hosting content without explicit consent, this raises concerns that creators' works may be overridden in search feeds<ref name=":0" /> and copyrights overridden for unauthorized purposes by other publishers.<ref name=":0" />
+As content from creators are nonconsensually "pinned" to the platform, since 2012,<ref name=":1" /> if not earlier, Pinterest claims rights inside its TOS<ref name=":2" /><ref>Kalliopi Monoyios (March 19, 2012). "[http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2012/03/19/pinterests-terms-of-service-word-by-terrifying-word/ Pinterest's Terms of Service, Word by Terrifying Word]". ''Scientific American''. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120523164313/http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2012/03/19/pinterests-terms-of-service-word-by-terrifying-word/ Archived] from the original on 23 May 2012. Retrieved 10 Mar 2025.</ref> to:<blockquote>By making available any Member Content through the Site, Application or Services, you hereby grant to Cold Brew Labs a worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free license, with the right to sublicense, to use, copy, adapt, *modify, distribute, license, sell, transfer, publicly display, publicly perform, transmit, stream, broadcast, access, view, and otherwise exploit such Member Content only on, through or by means of the Site, Application or Services.</blockquote>In simpler terms, this means that any content uploaded to Pinterest can be freely used by the platform and its users in any manner. Given the platform's history of hosting content without explicit consent, this raises concerns that creators' works may be overridden in search feeds<ref name=":0" /> and copyrights overridden for unauthorized purposes by other publishers.<ref name=":0" />
+=== Excessive advertising ===
+For years, dozens of users have reported excessive advertising on Pinterest <ref>{{Cite web |date=2022 |title=Why every single pin is an ad? |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/Pinterest/comments/ub9sq0/why_every_single_pin_is_an_ad/ |website=Reddit}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web |date=2023 |title=Increased Amount of Ads on Pinterest? |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/Pinterest/comments/18b9vga/increased_amount_of_ads_on_pinterest/ |website=Reddit}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024 |title=Why in the world does Pinterest have so many ads?[...] |url=https://www.quora.com/Why-in-the-world-does-Pinterest-have-so-many-ads-It-bothers-me-when-I-m-trying-to-look-at-a-recipe-etc-and-all-these-ads-pop-up-Is-there-any-way-to-get-rid-of-those |website=Quora}}</ref>, going as far back as 2015<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015 |title=Has Pinterest gotten much worse since the ads? |url=https://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/563260-has-pinterest-gotten-much-worse-since-the-ads/ |website=The Well-Trained Mind Community}}</ref>. Many online posts describe how the excessive ads ruin the user experience and have led to the abandonment of the platform altogether. One user states, "Due to the bombarding of ads on Pinterest, I went from scrolling through pins for hours to scrolling through pins for less than 5 seconds and then closing the apps"<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |date=2023 |title=Increased Amount of Ads on Pinterest? |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/Pinterest/comments/18b9vga/increased_amount_of_ads_on_pinterest/ |website=Reddit}}</ref>.
+An article on Android Authority describes how a platform for hobbies and crafts turned into a hub for discovering products (often on Amazon), which first began around 2013 and was then ramped up two years later as the platform shifted to a social e-commerce site<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dalul |first=Suzana |date=20 Feb 2020 |title=Pinterest: How a once inspiring social media app was ruined by ads |url=https://www.androidauthority.com/pinterest-ads-1065432/ |website=Android Authority}}</ref>. The platform even introduced a feature called Shoppable Pins, which uses hovering to show items in a picture while linking to external retail sites. These Shoppable Pins are treated as content rather than advertisements, which the article then goes on to say, "This is dishonest and misleading, and makes for an even worse experience than constantly being bombarded by pins from popular brands any time you search for something."
 ==See also==