How to find out that my photos are being reposted on VK
With basic settings, VKontakte users can repost other people's publications and photos.
Moreover, previously the number of reposts and the names of the users who made them could be easily viewed in one click. But due to the tightening of legislation on the protection of personal data, the function was limited.
You can find out the number of reposters and their names in the “Share” column, which is located next to each publication.
The list will open immediately after clicking on the line “Publication shared by a person.” Next to the “Shared” section you can see the “Rated” mark. It opens access to the list of users who liked the publication.
On the phone
Let's look at how to find an old post in a VK group, using an application on a mobile device for this.
According to the text
In order to find someone else’s or your own post in the VK community using your phone, you need to do the following:
- First you need to go to the communities section
- Then you need to go to the group in which you want to search for a post
- After this you need to click on the magnifying glass icon
- In the search bar you need to enter the word by which you want to find the post. Publications with this word will be found immediately
Search by date
Unfortunately, in the official mobile application it is not possible to search for publications by date. If you want to find a post posted on a specific day, use the date search on your computer or laptop.
By hashtags
In order to search for a post using hashtags in a community, you need to:
- Click on the search icon
- Then you need to enter a hashtag into the search and all posts with that hashtag will be found
By id
To find a publication from a specific person by ID, you need to:
- First, copy the user ID
- Next you need to click on the magnifying glass
- You need to insert the ID into the search bar and all publications mentioning this person will be found
In this step-by-step instructions, we examined in detail the question of how to find a post in a group on VK. A large number of publications are posted in communities every day, so in order to find the right post you have to manually scroll through the wall for a very long time. To make the search simple and fast, various ways have been invented to find the desired post, and now you can always resort to them.
Who can see the list of those who share other people's photos
In 2021, the VKontakte administration decided to limit some user capabilities. Now only group administrators or the profile owner can view the names of users who reposted a post.
That is, only the author has access to the list of those who shared the publication. Other users see only the number of reposts. Other information is not available to them. Moreover, if the reposter’s profile is hidden by privacy settings, his nickname will not be in the general list.
There are a number of programs that allow you to open access to a list of other people's reposts, but their use can lead to a ban on the social network or even infection with virus software.
Search by photo on VKontakte
To search for users who have a specific photo on their page, you need to:
- Upload an image to the album; to do this, in the “Photos” section, click on the “Add Photos” button, select the desired file and double-click on it.
- Determine the id of the image. To do this, open it and pay attention to the address bar of the browser. There is an address like: https://vk.com/photo*********_456********, where instead of * there will be numbers. Only part needs to be copied: photo********_456******.
- Open the “News” section and select the “Photos” tab, there you will see the search bar “Search by Photos”.
- In the search bar, type the text: “copy :” and paste the id of the image. It will look like this: copy:photo*********_456********.
- Press Enter and go to the search results.
- Click on any of the pictures presented in order to find out the user who added the image you are interested in. The description block will contain a link to the group or person who published the image.
Important. The search results will not include images from closed albums.
How to prevent reposting of your own photos
Cases of photos being stolen for further use for fraudulent or personal purposes are being recorded more and more often. To protect personal photos, VKontakte proposes to prohibit their reposting by closing the profile.
There is no separate function that limits the ability of users to repost publications.
Only people on your friends list can view and share private profile content. However, they cannot send a publication to a user who has not subscribed to the profile.
To close a page:
- Log into your account and go to Settings.
- Select the "Privacy" section.
- Find the line “Private profile” and drag the slider towards “On”.
Three easy steps will allow you to limit strangers' access to your personal profile and all photos posted on it.
How to find a post on VK by keywords, phrases, text
Find in all VKontakte
Try the standard search function in VK. In the full version of the site, the search is located at the top, and in the mobile application - under the button at the top right in the form of a magnifying glass.
Click on the empty search field and enter the words or phrase that were in the post. As you type, VK begins to suggest search results. To find a particular post, you need to select the “News” filter. To do this, in the full version of VK, click Show all results and then select News in the right column, and in the application on your phone, find News in the list at the top (All, People...), which you need to move to the left. The found entries will be shown in reverse chronological order, from newest to oldest.
You can search directly from here:
But does it make sense?
A private profile actually makes the information inaccessible to everyone except friends. But not all “friends” are like that. Subscribers can also use your photos for personal purposes. In addition, before the profile was closed, all photos could be downloaded to a personal device by anyone.
You can also get a picture if you take a screenshot of the screen.
It turns out that the only way to protect photos from being used by others is by not posting them. All other methods have loopholes. Bypassing restrictions does not require any special knowledge or skills.
The social network Vkontakte allows its users to limit access to profiles, thereby determining the circle of people who can see publications. But even this measure is not able to protect the posted media content from use by third parties for personal purposes. Everything that has once been uploaded to the global network automatically becomes public domain. And when uploading another photo from your personal archive to the platform, please do not forget about this.
Looking for a person through a photo
How to find a person on VK if you don’t know anything about him? Well, or do you know minimal information, for example, city of residence and approximate age? In theory, it is possible to find, but for such a broad request you will get too many results, among which, perhaps, the person you are looking for will not be there. What if, say, you have a photo of him? Will the task become easier?
In fact, you can really find a VKontakte user from a picture. The result is not one hundred percent, but it’s worth a try. So what we do:
1.Go to the Google search engine, go to the Pictures section.
2.Click on the camera icon, insert a direct link to the photo, or upload a picture from your computer if you downloaded the photo in advance.
3. We look through the results obtained in search of a link to the VK page.
What are the advantages of this method? First of all, it really works. Secondly, it's completely free. But there is one problem, and it will outweigh all the advantages. Unfortunately, Google is not always successful in its work. Photos often don’t “get through”, and it’s impossible to find the right person. However, it’s still worth a try, because... hits happen sometimes.
If Google search turns out to be useless, we move on to the fallback option. We are talking about a series of third-party resources that promise to find a person on VKontakte in a matter of seconds. You will see a lot of sites and applications on the Internet, but not all work well. The most famous service today is the FindFace application. It works on both PCs and mobile phones.
In general, finding people through this application can be called successful. Moreover, many people use it simply to find their doubles. Of course, Find Face doesn’t find outright doubles, but you can also kill time in this way. You can also use it to find fakes whose existence you didn’t even know existed. Useful service, in a word.
Browser extensions
If you need to find a girl’s account using a photo on VK, you can also use browser extensions. Today there are a huge number of such extensions in the Chrome store. The same extensions are available for other browsers. When choosing an extension, focus on reviews from other users and ratings. In most cases, this is a guarantee that the application will cope with its tasks. The advantage of extensions is that they allow you to almost instantly send any image to a search engine. To do this, you just need to make two mouse clicks.
Browser extensions have one drawback - many of them are not optimized enough, which is why they “eat up” the computer’s RAM during operation. The problem is that extensions are constantly running in the background. And if you have a browser running, the extension will automatically launch. But especially for you, we have selected several of the most popular extensions that do not overload the system.
PhotoTrackerLite
A convenient and lightweight extension available in most well-known browsers. Allows you to send an image to any search engine with the click of one button. You can set a priority search engine in advance. So, for example, if you select Yandex, the image will automatically be sent there. You can choose Google, DuckDuckGo, and Yahoo.
Search by Image
The world's most popular extension allows you to automatically send any image to a search engine. It has not gained much popularity in the Russian-language segment. The reason is that you cannot use Russian-language search engines for searching: neither Yandex nor Mail.ru are supported. But if you are looking for information on Google, then this is a great option.
Who stole my pictures
This service is one of the most popular among Russian-speaking users. It is one of the “heaviest” in our small top, but at the same time it shows the most effective results. Unlike the previous ones, “Who Stole My Pictures” is a service designed specifically for artists and content creators. With its help you can find copies of images on any website.
Search by image
Another well-known extension among the Russian-speaking audience is “Search by Image”. Unlike the previous one, it is not so “heavy”. But it’s worth saying that its functionality is a little narrower. You can only send the image to one of three search engines: Google, Yandex, DuckDuckGo. If you don't need additional features, then this extension is a great option.
