Comments on: Flickr porn surprise: the darker side of photo sharing

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 20:03:25 +0000

oh noes I saw a naked person now im going to hell! grow the fuck up

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:01:12 +0000

You know thanks to your article and many others alot of people have been getting ripped off by flickr. Flickr is now randomly deleting accounts that they deem unsafe. Whether the pictures are public or private. Right now I’m on a search for a sharing site that will accept my adult content.

By: James Holland

James Holland — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:00:46 +0000

There is indeed! Full response here: http://www.electricpig.co.uk/2009/11/18/flickr-adult-content-yahoo-responds/

Although what I’d really love is an update on how SafeSearch is being improved, and how users are helping to make the site better.

By: Ben Sillis

Ben Sillis — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:59:42 +0000

Self-publicists!

By: James Holland

James Holland — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:47:18 +0000

Interesting! We never thought of searching for particular names! Although, to be fair, that’s hardly stumbling across it now, is it Viper1f1c?!

By: Viper1f1c

Viper1f1c — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:20:49 +0000

Porn is everywhere on line. Did think you’d find it elsewhere first though. Just found porn models on Flickr – looks like they’re using it to show off and get more work! HA!

By: James Holland

James Holland — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:02:34 +0000

I can see how SafeSearch is easily fooled by image contents, but I’m surprised Yahoo! doesn’t seem to be filtering group names for dodgy keywords. We also tried all our searches in Google Image Search, to check we weren’t being overly sensitive, but it stubbornly refused to show us anything rude, even when we used naughty search words!

By: Anitra

Anitra — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:10:03 +0000

The problem with SafeSearch is that it’s dependent on users adding correct designations to the photos on Flickr – when you upload something it’s up to you to determine if the content is “objectionable”, and up to you to mark it so.

By: cscs

cscs — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:35:29 +0000

If their filter doesn’t screen out all objectionable content they shouldn’t be calling it SafeSearch. Who decides what is restricted content and who monitors that it is being correctly implemented?
Any follow up comment from Yahoo? This does seem to be a pretty basic lack of control on their part.
How about asking the Daily Mirror/Mail or perhaps Home Office for a comment as well – that should stir them up!

By: James Holland

James Holland — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:51:53 +0000

Thanks Winnie, as we say in the article above, that’s what surprised us: being able to find it so easily. I’ve removed your link, as we don’t want to highlight individual cases, but as you say: it’s not hard to do your own search and see the problem.