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[–] Davy_Jones@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

I stalk random people on the Internet

I like watching people on the internet. 15y ago, I was using Shareaza, Kazaa, Emule as my music sources. For those who aren't familiar with those software: it's p2p file download. You install Shareaza on your computer, and give access to specific folder to the Shareaza network. Anyone using Shareaza can then download the files located on your shared folder. But, in the mid 00', even more than today, people weren't that tech savy and what happened, way too often, was that a user would give access to the "My Documents" folder or even worse, their whole computer. I was looking for those thoses and I was reading their MSN messenger history, looking at their pictures, their resume, their schoolwork... I was really enjoying learning everything about their life through their My Documents folder.

Fast forward to 2018. All those p2p software disappeared. But I found an alternative: 4shared. 4shared allows you to upload pictures and share them (like img). When you download the app, you can setup the app to automatically upload all your pictures (from your phone). But a lot of users don't know that, and they end up with all they smartphone pictures on the net, with a public settings. I enjoy going to 4shared, looking for those non savy users, and learn everything about their lifes.

And I don't even need that. I have hobbies, friends, I don't have issues meeting women or people, but I like stalking on those strangers on 4shared.

source

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 16 points 5 days ago

IMG_0001

Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a built-in "Send to YouTube" button in the Photos app. Many of these uploads kept their default IMG_XXXX filenames, creating a time capsule of raw, unedited moments from random lives. 

Inspired by Ben Wallace, I made a bot that crawled YouTube and found 5 million of these videos! Watch them below, ordered randomly.

https://walzr.com/IMG_0001

[–] capuccino@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I guess it was on people who shared entire drives, or, can you trick nicotine to go folders above the shared ones? Like ../.

When I discovered SoulSeek I did something alike, I saw that I were able to explore other shares of the same user, and then you got me there doing some clicks to see how far I could went.

[–] Davy_Jones@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, some people share their entire drives, so the people who share system files are likely to have their private files there as well.

[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I once had a corrupt .dll system file, after trying for hours to find a copy to download it took ten seconds to find and download one on emule thanks to people sharing the entire system.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 12 points 5 days ago

That's just the NSA Agent-in-training, don't worry about it 😁

[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 days ago

I did that back then with emule, I searched for any file that started with dcim or img0 and put everything on the download list. Lots of random shit. HAHAHAHA

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Closest thing to that I ever got was buying a hard drive from ebay.

They didn't format it. Best I can tell it was used by a teenager in texas around 2018. Who either went out with, or stalked a girl in his class. Hard to tell. Tons of pictures labeling her as his girlfriend, no pictures with them together.

I did find about 4 different folders of call of duty pc files though.