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Facebook secretly makes kickass ASCII art of every picture you upload

Here’s a fun, amazing fact about Facebook: every time you upload a picture, the service is automatically generating an ASCII art version of your photos.

All you need to do is grab the link to an image on your page by right clicking on it, then clicking ‘copy image URL.’ Paste that into your address bar, then add ‘.html’ on the end.

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sonicwrecks3174d ago

That's actually pretty amazing. I've tried it with one of my photos and it is indeed doing that for both plain text and coloured.

Settler3172d ago (Edited 3172d ago )

But this trick is not working on all the facebook photos :(

gizmig3172d ago

As per the article -
"We’ve noticed it doesn’t work on every photo out there, so if it fails for you, try another picture — the photo needs to be public, or it won’t work."

So you should check if your Facebook photo is publicly visible or not.

Settler3173d ago

So I just need to add .html at the end of the url to get colored ASCII art. That's really awesome. I have already started following this trick on my facebook and Instagram photos :)

gizmig3173d ago

I just tried with one of my pic by adding .txt at the end which gives me just plain ASCII characters but I like .html version i.e. the colored version of ASCII.

Trilithon3172d ago

"It isn’t clear why Facebook is doing this — or if it was intended to be public, but we’ve reached out for further information." its for skynet. once a pics uploaded it can never be removed. suckers

Tzuno3172d ago (Edited 3172d ago )

this is how a computer recognize things. aka spying on people baby, location and etc.

gizmig3172d ago

It is not your computer, it is the online social media profiles that we built for fun. Rather it is a useful data for these tech companies.

Tzuno3172d ago

who said it's my computer? it's for who wanna spy on others.

alti3172d ago

It's not working for me on firefox... I right click > copy image location > paste in address bar > add .html > nothing shows...

Speed-Racer3172d ago

Doesn't work for private photos since there is a private key appended to the URl.

alti3172d ago

hmm they aren't private..

gizmig3171d ago

Try it with Instagram photos it will work for sure. I am having problem with Facebook photos too.

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