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I think it's actually just some javascript that prevents clicking links from a profile to the individual photos. Deep-linking still works without an account, so you can just right click a photo, copy the url and paste it into the URL bar.
What are they trying to prevent? Mass image scraping? The people doing that are going to keep doing it regardless of any hoops they make them jump through. This just makes the registration process for normal users more annoying.
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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…
The negative outlook instead seems to be that since 2010, Facebook (the product, not the engineering team) has delivered little value to society.
And at this point, seems to have ossified into a form that lacks the agility and will to make major shifts.
Their current emphasis on purchasing other companies for their product pipelines, to drive business to their advertising, seems more akin to pharma majors or IBM than anything in the startup world.
This is a reasonable decision on their part. I don’t think people realize how much of their traffic is bots scraping the location of people from photos.
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“This is to help people view photos in Instagram and understand how to have the best experience on the platform, be part of the community, connecting and interacting with people and the things they love” How does blocking access help people view things? How does blocking access help people understand how to have the best experience? Access is a better experience than access denied. Creating an account and lurking doe…