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Re: Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles

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IGotThroughIt wrote: post #77
leppr wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't worry it sucks as a user as well. Curiosity pushed me to use Google SSO to circumvent their crap one time, and they allowed themselves to subsequently spam my inbox with a flurry of emails. I proceeded to click the "unsubscribe" link in one of them, but to my surprise the spam kept coming. Turns out they have more than a dozen mailing settings and you have to painfully disable each one of them individually. Of…

> I proceeded to click the "unsubscribe" link in one of them, but to my surprise the spam kept coming. I despise it when this happens. The only solution is to create a gmail filter to catch the entire domain and archive it or mark it as spam. It's surprising how many companies willfully ignore the unsubscribe option.

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Re: Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles

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Post by _visgean »

dbdjfjrjvebd wrote: post #63
near wrote: post #9

They 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…

It takes a couple of hours to write code to handle exif rotations.

in python I use pywand:

    def generate_with_wand(self, wand_img: WandImage):
        # create stripped down version of our image:
        wand_img.strip()
        wand_img.auto_orient()
        wand_img.compression_quality = 90

        thumb = wand_img.clone()
        thumb.transform(resize=self.size)
        thumb.save(filename=str(self.get_output_path()))

Re: Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles

#93

Post by dessant »

kennyadam wrote: post #90
dessant wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've added Pinterest to my reverse image search extension [1] to avoid having to sign up when there is no alternative source for the image. It returns Pinterest search results [2], and you can access the image directly from the image icon. I plan to release the image extraction module in a separate extension, so you can just click on the page area with the image, and it opens the image in a new tab. This way you will…

Thank you for creating this, it's an excellent extension!

Thanks! Make sure to explore the extension's options, it can be configured to fit most use cases.

Re: Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles

#94

Post by intpx »

sarasasa28 wrote: post #84
sschueller wrote: post #62

Support the federated alternative that is being built based on the same technology (ActivityPub) as Mastodon and Peertube. [1] https://pixelfed.org/ [2] https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed

Kay man, surely all my friends will be there

sups easy to get my 90 year old grandmother to switch over to see pictures of my kids

Re: Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles

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Post by imglorp »

near wrote: post #9

They 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…

And what's up with their hate of zooming images in desktop?

They HAVE the full res image. There's even bookmarkets to snag the image. What twisted product goal led to the current state?

Re: Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles

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Post by VvR-Ox »

moccachino wrote: post #25
near wrote: post #9

They 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.

What about Twitter?

I just created an account with an email but after few minutes of clicking around it locked me out. I can only use it again if I give them my phone number, too -.-

As if this wasn't enough of their invasive procedures my profile officially says "Account is blocked because of suspicious behavior".

This is some advanced trickery to fool users into giving them more data than they intended to do when creating a profile and it sucks.

There are more examples: Have you tried browsing Facebook or Xing as a user? It's all a really crappy experience.

Re: Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles

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Post by eps »

moccachino wrote: post #25
near wrote: post #9

They 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.

LinkedIn is comparably aggravating if you aren't a club member.

Re: Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles

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Post by dbdjfjrjvebd »

_visgean wrote: post #92
dbdjfjrjvebd wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It takes a couple of hours to write code to handle exif rotations.

in python I use pywand: def generate_with_wand(self, wand_img: WandImage): # create stripped down version of our image: wand_img.strip() wand_img.auto_orient() wand_img.compression_quality = 90 thumb = wand_img.clone() thumb.transform(resize=self.size) thumb.save(filename=str(self.get_output_path()))

Exactly! I was including making test case images and writing tests.
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