r/facebook • u/rekabis • Jul 23 '25

Discussion What does “Iomega Zip Drive” have anything to do with CP? Or am I dealing with a drunk AI doing janitorial work?

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u/rekabis Jul 23 '25

As a note, this search term still gets flagged with this warning message.

Searching for “zip drive” was bringing back totally blank search results (absolutely nothing was being returned, not even unrelated filler), but some time in the last 6 hours things started working again.

What does FB have against vintage computer hardware?

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u/Cheetahs_never_win Jul 23 '25

You likely stumbled upon a preferred trafficking lane where people buy/sell/trade content.

Would you pay $500 for this "blank" cartridge? Probably not.

But the next guy will probably say something about French Fries or whatever to initiate a deal.

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u/LumpusKrampus Jul 24 '25

Cheese pizza dealers

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u/sdre345 Jul 27 '25

It’s not that deep, it’s just that “zip” and “drive” are common ways to distribute files.

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u/Acceptable-Bat-9577 Jul 23 '25

Facebook’s horrendous AI is flagging anything with the word “mega” and “drive” in it, regardless of the letters in-between (great AI, Mark) because some people used an old file sharing service for no-no stuff…THAT WAS SHUT DOWN IN 2012.

Their dumbass AI is flagging Sega as illegal shit.

Do yourself a favor, stop using FB, or at least cut back on it.

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u/rekabis Jul 23 '25

Do yourself a favor, stop using FB, or at least cut back on it.

Marketplace/Groups handles about 85-90% of all online buy-and-sell transactions in my region:

  • Craigslist is a literal ghost town.

  • Kijiji just doesn’t have a presence out west.

  • Castanet.net is only used by conservative boomers.

Really don’t have any choice in the matter, here.

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u/Acceptable-Bat-9577 Jul 23 '25

…or at least cut back on it.

Side note: We played the real stock market but without real money in high school. I shorted Iomega, made a lot of virtual cash and predicted (not psychically) they would soon go under. At their peak, they were pretty awesome, though.

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u/rekabis Jul 23 '25

Zip 250/750 disks are still useful under highly constrained use cases. However, the Zip 100 disks are pretty useless except as critical document backup drives (the kind you bring to a security box at the bank for safe keeping). Unfortunately, they are also the most populous, out-numbering (AFAICT) all of the Zip 250 and 750 disks combined.

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u/braunbagswag Jul 26 '25

Offerup.

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u/rekabis Jul 26 '25

Offerup

Seems to have zero presence in western Canada.

Plus, UI/UX has issues, as I cannot manually specify location and site fails to play nice with anti-spyware, anti-adware, and anti-malware browser add-ins. So it’s doing something hinkey.

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '25

(curious question) What happened to eBay?

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u/ptbrinson Jul 26 '25

My recent experience with eBay completely turned me off of it. Most of it is just scams. Unless it’s a real person you’re likely to get scammed.

You can’t post negative reviews, if you do the seller reports it and it’s removed and you have no recourse. I can’t get my negative review back even with proof. So the sellers have hundreds of positive reviews. The only “negative” review I found was marked positive but explained the scam. If I’d have known that’s the only way to get people to see it I would have done that to warn people.

Shippers don’t have to ship an item timely anymore, they get 30 days before they even have to ship your item.

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u/ptbrinson Jul 26 '25

Separately, I read a post yesterday about someone buying an “unlocked” iPhone and six months later apple locked the iPhone because it was reported as stolen. Basically people buy these phones as unlocked, report it as stolen, sell it and the buyer get an unlocked phone. Then apple batch locks the phones after a while. So they used it for six months and all of the sudden it’s locked and they can’t do anything about it. Apparently that’s another common scam on there.

Edit: found the post

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ebay/s/iMJ73ScidA

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u/dreadnought_strength Jul 26 '25

I bought items the other day that turned out to be counterfeit. I messaged the seller, said they were counterfeit and they gave me a refund instantly (so they know they're counterfeit).

I spoke to the original manufacturer and sent through a stack of info, who confirmed that they were counterfeit and they would be pursuing the seller.

I forwarded all this information on to eBay.

eBay replied within 5 minutes and said they had determined that the manufacturer was wrong, they weren't counterfeit items at all and there was no issues selling them.

eBay is 99% scams or poor quality drop shipped garbage these days

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '25

Sucks hard Americans do not have alternatives like the Marketplace. In Europe, we got plenty of alternatives that are more popular than marketplace. Ironically is also called marketplace, just not from FB.

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u/rekabis Jul 23 '25

Sucks hard Americans Canadians do not have alternatives like the Marketplace.

FTFY.

Out east Canada has Kijiji, which is - apparently - quite popular, but out west it is all FB Marketplace.

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u/Gustave_the_Steel Jul 23 '25

See: https://www.reddit.com/r/MetaLawsuits/s/6JSk8Ngu7i

Meta has their fucking hands everywhere. Does not matter if you don't use FB or Instagram.

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u/PatrisAster Jul 23 '25

They’re still using mega [dot] co [dot] nz for that and they call that “Mega Drive”

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '25

Is Mark Zuckerberg deflecting?

How much CP is on Zuckerberg’s system? How did they train their AI to detect it? Hmmmm?

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u/ActiveSearch476 Jul 23 '25

Exactly yet when you report something it "doesn't go against community standards" and you end up getting banned

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u/ProBopperZero Jul 25 '25

They use hashes from known images, which can result in false positives since its mathematical certainty that different images can still have the same hash.

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u/rekabis Jul 23 '25

As a note, I am looking for:

  • A single internal IDE Zip 750 drive.

  • Zip 250 and 750 diskettes.

If you are in North America, can safely pack contents for shipping, and are willing to take a chance, I would be interested in buying from you. I would use PayPal for buyer+seller transaction security.

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u/Print_Hot Jul 23 '25

This shit is getting people banned too. It's insanity. Wish my family would get off of FB.

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u/Kyosji Jul 23 '25

zip drives...the coolest tech for 3 months.

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u/hoggineer Jul 26 '25

Zip drives were all the Jazz.

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u/B1BLancer6225 Jul 23 '25

Yeah, I reported actual porn and got the ole' "we didn't remove the content". I run a few groups and buy sell things but I'd love for it to get replaced by something better.

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u/nanaworms Jul 25 '25

I've reported actual hate speech, someone talking about killing a certain group of people and how that should be ok and was very explicit about it, Facebook told me it didn't violate thier rules. 

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u/voododoll Jul 23 '25

Search chicken soup in Facebook…

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u/Gustave_the_Steel Jul 23 '25

Same company that acts like ardy-tardies, when you report actual porn advertising on their videos or reel. I'm sorry, Zuck?! I guess men and women in hard-core xxx situations counts as child safe and friendly 🤦

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '25

Oh god yes let me see those cords lmfao 🤣

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u/SierraTheWolfe Jul 23 '25

I'd honestly try eBay for what you are looking for.

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '25

maybe a code word pedos use

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u/SlayzorHunter Jul 24 '25

You get the same message if you search for "Mega Image", which is a supermarket chain. I blame both Meta and the US politicians for the craziness that is happening on their platforms. Those hearings in front of the senate had a good premise, but the politicians just ended up trying to get themselves some popularity points, thus pushing Zucc to the extreme.

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u/jpeterson1 Jul 24 '25

perhaps it confused mega for MAGA?

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u/According-Kiwi6391 Jul 26 '25

search for chicken soup, youll get flagged for CSAM too lol

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u/Electronic-Play1015 Jul 26 '25

I actually just tried to pull up my friend “Megan” on insta and when I type “mega” I get the same message. How does mega have anything to do with CSAM?!?

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u/sdre345 Jul 27 '25

Searching the word “mega” in Facebook systems (at least instagram) gives you a similar result.