Your Facebook And Instagram Photos Have A Hidden Ascii Version Techworm
A self-described ‘Web standards fanatic’ named Mathias Bynens discovered that Facebook and Instagram are automatically making ASCII art versions of every photo you upload, that is, recreating your images out of text characters — out of your photos and anyone can find it. And accessing the lo-fi versions of your images is super easy. ? append .txt ? ASCII art? append .html ? colored ASCII art E.g. https://t.co/GgnN8HJii4 — Mathias Bynens (@mathias) January 28, 2016 The user has only to append “....