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Re: Instagram no longer allows people without an account to view photos on computers

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Post by mewpmewp2 »

lotyrin wrote: post #120
lmilcin wrote: post #116

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This is typical marketing-speak. I am becoming temporarily deaf whenever I hear it. Read it the following way: We have a reason to do it but we don't want to tell you so instead we will tell you a little bit of righteously-sounding bullshit so that most of sheep base is satisfied. Yes, that's "sheep", because you are not our customers, our customers are those companies we sell your information and your focus to.

No, this is their reason, just from within their distortion field. This is helping the user view photos, because the user should be logged in and using the app, the app provides the best experience and this web interface is a distraction that gets in the way of that. Edit: I guess it wasn't sufficiently clear, the second sentence here is not my own personal opinion.

No, best experience is when I do not have to open my phone if someone links me something. Best experience when I don't have to waste time creating a user and logging in.

Re: Instagram no longer allows people without an account to view photos on computers

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Post by ethbro »

downvoteme1 wrote: post #127
ship_it wrote: post #110

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They are using Facebook tactics and they are doomed to fail as Facebook did. Well ... I cherish for their innovations. Good bye Instagram.

You can call Facebook whatever but it is not a failure. A company that has grown revenue from 2B in 2010 to 70B in 2019 cannot be considered a failure .

We'll see. Yahoo grew revenue too.

Re: Instagram no longer allows people without an account to view photos on computers

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Post by cirno »

iamthepieman wrote: post #27

I stopped using Quora when I kept getting interrupted to sign in/up when not logged in. I did the same for Pinterest. I had deleted and wiped my LinkedIn account for a long time but recently re-activated it for a job search. I'll delete it again when I land a job. Reddit is getting there but not so annoying that I will stop using it. I get the most value out of Reddit but there are so many ways to get information and…

YouTube is pretty annoying when not logged it too. It constantly pops up a "you're signed out of YouTube" box that obscures part of the video until I close it. On every single video.

Maybe if viewing a single video of Anthony Hopkins (for example) didn't replace half of my feed with Anthony Hopkins videos, I might be more inclined to not open it in a private tab (logged out), but alas.

But hey, at least you can watch the video. That's more than I say for half the news and image sites out there anymore.

Re: Instagram no longer allows people without an account to view photos on computers

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Post by novok »

thatsoundsmean wrote: post #54
iamthepieman wrote: post #34

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same thing happened to me except I didn't bother going through support. I dug a little more a few years later and it turns out someone had put my email address in their account although they had signed up and logged in via phone number so it didn't matter that they didn't have access to the email associated with the account. I was able to take over the account since my email was associated with it. I wiped the pictur…

That sounds like an unnecessarily aggressive way to handle that. It certainly could have been an honest mistake on the part of the user who owned that account. Why not just change the email address on the account?

If you signed up for gmail or similar early, then dumbasses of the world use your email address as 'their email' dozens of times a day for random internet accounts because it's also their name, and they don't understand or don't care that it isn't their email address.

It gets tiring fast and services don't deal with this usecase that well other than 'forget password'. That guy was the initial asshole to signup using an email address that wasn't theirs.

Re: Instagram no longer allows people without an account to view photos on computers

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Post by zrm »

stevewodil wrote: post #115
covercash wrote: post #73

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I hate when sites don’t accept + modified email addresses.

As someone working to launch an app, this isn't something that I was terribly concerned with handling before launch, but I now have a question. Is the best way to handle this to allow the '+' symbol in email addresses, but verify that the underlying email address hasn't already been registered so that one email address still can't create multiple accounts? So if you sign up with covercash+123@gmail.com, should I chec…

You should just treat them as two different email addresses. On some providers this is in fact what they are, and there is no real point in doing otherwise because anybody who wants to create multiple accounts in that way could just create multiple email addresses instead.

Re: Instagram no longer allows people without an account to view photos on computers

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Post by downvoteme1 »

ethbro wrote: post #132
downvoteme1 wrote: post #127

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You can call Facebook whatever but it is not a failure. A company that has grown revenue from 2B in 2010 to 70B in 2019 cannot be considered a failure .

We'll see. Yahoo grew revenue too.

All companies from Sears to Yahoo to Favebook have peaks, troughs and then eventually fade out. Even if Facebook fades outs on the next 5-50 years, it would have done better than millions of other companies. Look at it this way - what started as an experiment in a dorm room turning into this big is the dream of every startup. Every year thousands of companies apply to YC hoping to be 1/100 to 1/1000 as successful as FAANG’s

Re: Instagram no longer allows people without an account to view photos on computers

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Post by gpm »

Taniwha wrote: post #128
blueblisters wrote: post #114

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I had this experience when I was working with the Facebook Ad Manager. They arbitrarily blocked my @domain account while my ads were running. They asked me to submit IDs and stuff but haven't heard back in 2 weeks. No other way to contact support except wait. I am not sure what flagged my account but I wouldn't be surprised if they have significantly lowered the threshold for threat detection in an election year (esp…

Oh yeah, facebook is the worst, someone signed up using my email address (they don't do verification of email addresses), I get so much spam ..... however there is no way to contact facebook without a facebook account - no email address, no contact form, nothing - their world view is terribly inward looking

Hmm - could you reset the password on the account, and then delete it?

(Personally I'd only be comfortable doing this if this was still a very new account)

Re: Instagram no longer allows people without an account to view photos on computers

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Post by novok »

12xo wrote: post #99
sjroot wrote: post #86

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> my work remains my work and is not easily stolen nor transferable without consent I think in general, this is a "hard" problem for an Internet-based service. You would have to include a watermark of some kind, which arguably hinders viewer experience. And regardless, it is still very easy for viewers to capture an image by downloading or taking a screenshot. I do agree with your sentiment about IG though.

Honestly, I dont know the answer. Maybe its blockchain like tracking in the image file? Maybe its something else... There are many technologies available that can fingerprint a file, and others that can ID an image. A service that includes this type of feature would be good. And of course, anyone can screenshot an image, but they cannot resell a screenshot for commercial use. But in the end the EULA of these apps are…

Thus a watermark and maybe a service that does image searches for your images on a schedule and then alerts you if someone uses it?

Re: Instagram no longer allows people without an account to view photos on computers

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Post by basch »

mbreedlove wrote: post #88
basch wrote: post #57

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Google should be returning the highest quality results. If thats a paywalled newspaper, it should not be excluded. However, I do think some kind of tag, similar to [AD] could appear next to the result, warning you not to click it, [PW] or [LW] for paywall and loginwall.

I don't consider anything that's pay-walled to be high quality. If I can't read it, it has no value to me.

If I continue to run into the same paywall, I would consider buying into it. If I bought content, I would want it to show up in search. I wouldnt know I want to buy it, if I dont run into it first.

Re: Instagram no longer allows people without an account to view photos on computers

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Post by awinter-py »

fao_ wrote: post #15

Some friends roped me into signing up to Instagram, so I did. I got to the sign in process and "an error occurred". I tried to login and it said "account does not exist", but I tried to re-sign up, and it said "This account already exists". I emailed them for help but they said I had to post a photo of myself holding a pad with my username on it. Which, fair enough, but giving away my face to a faceless corporation i…

anecdotal, but I tried signing up for FB (not IG) from incognito chrome on linux, then didn't set any information or add friends, and they disabled my account less than a week later

went through 'upload a drivers license' process, no luck, no explanation

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