The owner of the land, Google, invests what he does not have and more in trying to track the crime of hate speech in the EU. track and track for fake news. They are not able to see it clearly, and they would like it very much.

If SS used AI to give access or not to the archives in its library, minorities, religion, certain social groups and some country, they would have already exposed their complaints and possible diplomatic conflicts with some country.

The language is very subtle, and I firmly maintain that the examiners are human. It has no SS capability, nor means of AI in file exams. In addition, it may take decades to get something in this direction to start a path. Decades

The AI can't understand a picture today. I am not going to ask you also, that as you learn you will be looking longer if you find a file that you like very much, or get to love. Nor will I ask the AI to exclaim WOW when he finds a sexy robot.

If they had AI to decide on files, the SS would have more value than Google, Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram, APPLE, Microsoft, ...

The new owner of the planet would be SS.

"Nor will I ask the AI to exclaim WOW when he finds a sexy robot."

LOL!!!!!!!!

+ to both!  5,542 sexy robot stock photos 

The Yen is mightier than the pen.

"Shutterstock�s road to China began around 2014, when the company struck a deal with the Chinese social network ZCool Network Technology to exclusively distribute Shutterstock images. It was a foothold in a potentially huge market, and Shutterstock invested $15 million in ZCool in 2018."

Exclusive?

Additional: Getty Images... also distributes material in China through a local partner company, VCG. A search of VCG for �Taiwan flag� produces zero results. Adobe Stock... is available in China, and a search on its site in China by NBC News also found zero results for �Taiwan flag.�

"Shutterstock regularly receives take down notices from more than 20 countries, not including requests related to intellectual property, spokeswoman Hughes said. The countries are primarily in Europe, Australia, North America and some in South America and the company addresses hundreds or sometimes thousands of requests a year."

Pavlovsky �... employees have a lot of opportunities to work here, to work elsewhere, and we are very supportive when employees do not feel that this is the right place for them, to pursue other opportunities.� I think he's as transparent and honest as any of them asked for.

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I have a strange decline in views since beginning of december.......
I usually had about 800 views per month and it suddenly dropped to something like 300...
Over the last 4 days there were only 15 views of my pictures.....

Has anybody else noticed something like that as well?

I mean I don�t really sell much stuff on Alamy anyway but if nobody even views my pics I might opt out as well......

No, my views are stable, and for some reason my CTR is relatively high (for me). (I see it was high last Jan too, doesn't necesarily mean anything, though: I have no sales this year so far, which is my slowest-starting year since 2012).

This is terribly not related but I wanted you to see the post, since you do searches for... searches, views, All of Alamy and that kind of thing. I never knew how much we could sort and control the results.

https://www.regular-expressions.info/quickstart.html

| (that's the pipe symbol) can be used as OR in a search, % seems to be what we'd normally use as a wildcard like * in other searches. I bookmarked this and maybe some day I'll learn more. But mostly should be useful for Alamy searches?

Yes, you can search e.g. % New York, because although searching New York would give you New York theatres, New York shops, New York parks etc, it wouldn't show e.g. Manhattan, New York or Central Park, New York, so if you're looking for searches on New York, you have to do both.

Yes and reading the details with the either or search, specific words and all the potential, pretty good. The problem is, most buyers and users will never learn or use all these available tools. But I know you are interested in the search and how agencies have vague search qualifications.

What shall I say- Alamy is performing great since they were sold..... Had a 188 $ sale today, a 36 $ sale last week, views went up and CTR is 1,03 for me now....
Amazing.
Such a change.
There must be a whole new bunch of clients after the sale. Buyers who like my kind of photos.....

Maybe you are watching too close? One message you say your views are down and you are thinking of leaving, the next you are seeing them as preforming great, since they were sold. From the usual reporting times and buyers, considering the sale just went through, do you really believe your sales upswing is because of new owners, when nothing has changed?

Alamy is slow to change, slow to report, slow to pay, and for all of us, sales are not consistent. You had low views and you want to leave? You get some sales and everything has changed? I think what you might consider is, the flux and variations in sales, also regions and returns, at Alamy. I know I get a $120 sale, or two, and then the next month 3 $3.63 or $11 (those numbers are gross) downloads. Followed by nothing for two months. Alamy is highly irregular.

When buyers need images, they will buy them. When they don't need what I make, they don't buy them. I don't actually watch CTR and views, which maybe would be good for finding what buyers are looking for. I do what I do, upload what I like and that's been the same since 2008. If you are like some others and follow the trends, then that's good. If you create new based on trends and views, that's good too. Good as a tool for making new images.

But watching my own views and CTR, just to watch, has never helped sales in any way. It's more like, watching the pot boil, when you could just turn on the heat and go away for 10 minutes, then see if it's boiling or not? Watching or not, doesn't change what's actually happening? 

Here's to more sales like this month and maybe some of that success will spill over to mine?

I always figured that as it stands for Graphic Interface Format it was a hard G from Graphic.

It seems that the GIF originator and Jif peanut butter people, don't actually agree. I'd have to read the correction and the story again. Oh wait, yes they do. Sure is confusing.

" in the eyes of the creator of the GIF, Steve Wilhite. He declared in 2013 that the acronym �GIF� should be pronounced �Jif.�"

To be honest I've pronounced them both the same, and I don't eat peanut butter, so no bias. 

Both GIF and the peanut butter are pronounced "Jif."

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Quote from: wds on February 24, 2020, 22:32

Which of the other major sites have similar opt outs...does Adobe?

So no other sites have sensitive use opt-outs?

Honestly, with the terms and use, maybe someone can explain what this change actually means. Was there a way to license images, outside of the blanket restriction?

SS you may not: Shutterstock images may not be used together with pornographic, defamatory, or otherwise unlawful or immoral content.

Adobe, may not: (d)   use the Work in a pornographic, defamatory, or otherwise unlawful manner; (e)use the Work in a way that depicts models and/or property in connection with a subject that a reasonable person could consider unflattering, immoral, or controversial, taking into account the nature of the Work, examples of which could include, without limitation, ads for tobacco; adult entertainment clubs or similar venues or services; endorsements of political parties or other opinion-based movements; or implying mental or physical impairment;

Oh edit, I can answer my own question, I found it.

https://www.shutterstock.com/contributorsupport/articles/kbat02/000006549?l=en_US

Are there any restrictions with a sensitive use license?
Shutterstock will not license Content for use in connection with matter that is pornographic, defamatory or deceptive, or in a manner that could be considered libelous, obscene, or illegal in nature.

If you no longer rely upon income from your microstock, you have jumped.

What if I never did? 

Microstock paid for these:


and this:


I'm not sure I ever made a real profit, like a business would through legitimate bookkeeping, expenses against gains? I'm pretty sure I never got any useful income from Microstock, because I used money for discretionary spending. AKA squandered it on equipment and scotch.

I think there are many others who never relied on income from Microstock. Can't jump ship, if you never got on it? 

When is the next iStock payout?

$100? 

Hi Everyone,

I've scheduled a webinar with our Senior Product Manager in charge of search this Thursday, February 27 at 2:30PM PST. It would be great if you can attend. We'll do our best to take as many questions as possible during our 45-60 minute conversation about Adobe Stock search. How you can use the tools to your advantage as a contributor at Adobe Stock. I hope to see you there!

https://www.crowdcast.io/e/search-tips-and-tricks

Mat Hayward

In case I can't be there. Are Titles Searched or not?

I'm not sure what the problem was, but a server reset fixed the issue. I could have fixed it earlier but I was away in a place without internet so i didn't know about the issue until I came back

Looked like this.



From some searching (I don't know what this means) "disabling Anti-DDoS protection of LSWS solved the issue."

And from Cloudfair: "your origin server is resetting TCP connections during the SSL handshake, so the handshake fails" but reading the error screnn, that could be a different issue.

Here's one more.  https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/115003011431-Troubleshooting-Cloudflare-5XX-errors#525error

Error 525: SSL handshake failed

525 errors are often caused by a configuration issue on the origin web server. Error 525 occurs when these two conditions are true:

    The SSL handshake fails between Cloudflare and the origin web server, and
    Full or Full (Strict) SSL is set in the Overview tab of your Cloudflare SSL/TLS app.

Resolution

Contact your hosting provider to exclude the following common causes at your origin web server:

    No valid SSL certificate installed
    Port 443 (or other custom secure port) is not open
    No SNI support
    The cipher suites accepted by Cloudflare does not match the cipher suites supported by the origin web server

If 525 errors occur intermittently, review the origin web server error logs to determine the cause. Configure Apache to log mod_ssl errors. Also, nginx includes SSL errors in its standard error log, but may possibly require an increased log level.


If you can get your host to increase the log level, maybe they can see what's happening?

Hi Everyone,

I've scheduled a webinar with our Senior Product Manager in charge of search this Thursday, February 27 at 2:30PM PST. It would be great if you can attend. We'll do our best to take as many questions as possible during our 45-60 minute conversation about Adobe Stock search. How you can use the tools to your advantage as a contributor at Adobe Stock. I hope to see you there!

https://www.crowdcast.io/e/search-tips-and-tricks

Mat Hayward

+ + + + + + + + + +

https://www.behance.net/adobestock/livestreams

and yes to stop contributing to low payers.
you dont lose money, its the opposite.

Thank You

The whole "something is better than nothing" is killing us all, undermining value in our work.

there is only one reason people bying content:
they need it.

its your fault if you offer too cheap.

if content gets withdrawn and put to a reasonable place,
buyers go there -simple as that

btw, just wondering, usually if someone comes up here with words like fair, idea, union...
this forum outrages freaking out

But I've said from the start, if most of us, stopped supporting the low paying and parasite agencies, they would soon be gone and the better paying, serious sites would thrive. Adobe has shown us that a big agency can be fair? I won't upload to anyplace except SS, AS and Alamy.

When I say, drop the bad agencies, the cheap ones that only sell on price, or avoid the agencies that we can't trust, you know what we heard? I need the money, I can't leave them.  So there goes any union or demand for fair commissions. The artists themselves will not join in and fight for change.

Being rational and seeing reality, how we are powerless, and there's no unity, is not freaking out.

One more thing, anyone who starts a union, whether it's pay or membership, all they need to do is find a way to force the agencies to listen and negotiate. You tell me how they get that power to set terms, and we're there.