This looks like a result of linkedin scraping case. Although I hate walled gardens, in the age of facial recognition etc, I hate some random scraper have my photos more.
Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles
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#33This looks like a result of linkedin scraping case. Although I hate walled gardens, in the age of facial recognition etc, I hate some random scraper have my photos more.
Yes and those annoying Instagram scrapping copy websites which just make a copy of Instagram
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#34They also use meta robots=noimageindex,noarchive on every page without an opt-out which is so incredibly stupid and walled-gardeny for an image sharing site. I wanted to use Flickr instead but nobody else uses Flickr, then I tried making my own image gallery and I learned that browsers do not honor the JPEG rotation EXIF data and I don't want to write my own rotation/cropping code (that and Google completely ignores…
Now that Instagram has been totally Facebooked, I feel there’s a real gap in the market for what Instagram used to be.
Just want something simple where I can upload some photos, do a bit of light editing, apply a nice filter and share with friends. And also see a chronological timeline of stuff they’ve posted.
No likes, no engagement metrics, no personalisation, no skinner-boxing, no influencers.
Well aware this makes me sound old - and this hypothetical service will never make unicorn money. But I’d use it in a flash.
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#35Instead of complaining about scrapers, how about not uploading things you don't want scraped?Though i'm not a scraper, I can mildly understand the "annoyance", but it's absurd to assume something you post on your own to not be downloaded by somebody.Is it that different between a person simply downloading one picture and someone scraping all your photos?(for whatever purpose)
This "hurts" instagram only in the traffic they receive.However i'm assuming they're also saving some money since they're cutting some costs.
The actual bad problem for instagram is that they're turning into facebook and it shows.One more reason to ditch big shitty corporations like facebook that make the world a pile of trash.
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#36They also use meta robots=noimageindex,noarchive on every page without an opt-out which is so incredibly stupid and walled-gardeny for an image sharing site. I wanted to use Flickr instead but nobody else uses Flickr, then I tried making my own image gallery and I learned that browsers do not honor the JPEG rotation EXIF data and I don't want to write my own rotation/cropping code (that and Google completely ignores…
Now that Instagram has been totally Facebooked, I feel there’s a real gap in the market for what Instagram used to be. Just want something simple where I can upload some photos, do a bit of light editing, apply a nice filter and share with friends. And also see a chronological timeline of stuff they’ve posted. No likes, no engagement metrics, no personalisation, no skinner-boxing, no influencers. Well aware this make…
So VSCO?
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#37My guess is that it's to put up an obstacle against crawlers and perhaps also lower the cost of outbound traffic?
More likely it is to be able to create more complete visitor profiles and provide more value to advertisers.
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#38They also use meta robots=noimageindex,noarchive on every page without an opt-out which is so incredibly stupid and walled-gardeny for an image sharing site. I wanted to use Flickr instead but nobody else uses Flickr, then I tried making my own image gallery and I learned that browsers do not honor the JPEG rotation EXIF data and I don't want to write my own rotation/cropping code (that and Google completely ignores…
Speaking of walled gardens. There is probably no service in this world that I hate more, as a non-user, than Pinterest.
Pinterest manages to do something horribly stupid and kind of abusive that I usually associates with adult sites ads: show you a preview of something that gets your interest, if you click to get access to it put you through a maze of forms and links all promising the result you asked for at the end, and then when you get to it they don't deliver and instead show other stuff you might like but really you don't because you did all that for this specific thing.
I don't get it. You have it. You know the user wants it. You know the user wants it very much, enough to go through all that crap. Yet you are going out of your way to not give him access, making him so frustrated that any hope of "but he will crawl around more and do more stuff" is quickly replaced by "he closes the tab in anger at having lost 5 minutes" ...
I'm sure there are metrics showing that it works, or maybe that it doesn't lose enough people to be worth changing, but it is so unnecessary.
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#39How accurate is the belief that logged-in eyeballs are profitable, but logged-out ones aren't?
I suppose they are trying to bully non-users to create an account to view the next popular instagram page that all the cool kids started following last night.
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#40They also use meta robots=noimageindex,noarchive on every page without an opt-out which is so incredibly stupid and walled-gardeny for an image sharing site. I wanted to use Flickr instead but nobody else uses Flickr, then I tried making my own image gallery and I learned that browsers do not honor the JPEG rotation EXIF data and I don't want to write my own rotation/cropping code (that and Google completely ignores…
I still use Flickr. The only place out there which doesn't want to immediately steal photo rights.