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Same thing happened to me, and I tried to email them about a clear bug that occurs. They wanted the same photo verification. I was very nice in the correspondence until they requested photo verification a second time, and I was so confused why they were being so incompetent about it. It's a 0 follower account that I never had access to in the first place because it instantly got disabled, why would I care? Just fix t…
It blows my mind that people still use Facebook products. I disconnected in like... idk 2014? 2015? And never looked back.
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my main complaint is watching videos on desktop web or the mobile app - there's no way to control play/pause/scrubbing. you just have to sit through it and if you miss any of it, watch it again from the start. same goes for tiktok i believe. this isn't an issue with the mobile version of the website. anyway, rant over - i hate mobile apps.
I think this is a deliberate decision, although I'm not sure why. You can download the videos if you're savvy enough to open the dev tools, delete the transparent div, and find the element with the video (which may not be a URL but one of those weird blob: ones). Simples.
Re: Instagram no longer allows people without an account to view photos on computers
#273I made a blog post[1] about it a while ago which is elementaryOS oriented but can be used in any system or browser
[1] https://asvvvad.eu.org/?page=blog&id=use-epiphany-as-mobile-...
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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…
so my email address is very simple. I have someone from almost every English speaking country who regularly uses my email address for all things mundane, profane, inane and urbane.
I used to respond to each and every one if possible, politely asking them to remove me from the list, stop putting my email down on whatever forms they were filling out or to tell the person they got the email address from to use their own or be more careful when filling it out. It's been going on so long and gotten so bad that I just can't anymore.
examples of things I have received mistakenly in my email that were clearly the result of someone entering them in a form or writing the down to be used by someone else.
Job interview confirmations for fields I am not and have never been involved with
letters from grandma
plane ticket, concert ticket, train ticket, parking ticket and other types of ticket confirmation and notifications.
boating licenses
requests to accept changes to architectural plans for a house
lease and housing agreements
notices to appear in court
electronic receipts of every sort
prescription drug receipts
confidential internal company information
and more.
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#275Re: Instagram no longer allows people without an account to view photos on computers
#276Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same thing happened to me, and I tried to email them about a clear bug that occurs. They wanted the same photo verification. I was very nice in the correspondence until they requested photo verification a second time, and I was so confused why they were being so incompetent about it. It's a 0 follower account that I never had access to in the first place because it instantly got disabled, why would I care? Just fix t…
It blows my mind that people still use Facebook products. I disconnected in like... idk 2014? 2015? And never looked back.
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#277I don't understand this, why in the world would they prevent their users from uploading photos from the their laptops?
These weird UX choices never made sense to me. If you don't want users to do anything in a browser, then just remove your website, and force them to download your app, problem solved.
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Ideally Google would have a search filter that lets you block paywalled sites from your search, if that's what you want.
You've got it backwards I think, google should offer you a search filter to include paywalled sites while they are by default excluded. The vast majority of the time, someone searching something on the internet isn't willing to pay to see it.
Imagine if Duck Duck Go offered that by default?
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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?
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#280As a photographer, I urge all other passionate photographers to get off of Instagram. It's more important now than ever to be the authority of your own content. I know it's not as fancy but just start by hosting your own simple blog. I made an effort to build my own Instagram like section on my site just to host my own images. It even has a web assembly lib that scales the images client-side so I don't have to deal w…
For example, I could host all my images directly on my Linode, but the cheapest Linode has only 1 TB of outbound transfer a month (for $5), and over quota you're actually charged more than that, $10 / TB. That comes with only 25 GB of storage. They'd also probably be pretty slow for most of my visitors, since they're hosted on a single server somewhere in California.
If you want faster distribution around the country and globe, you might consider S3... that same 1 TB of data out is going to cost you $90 / month.
Meanwhile, it's clear the REAL costs are not that high. Flickr Pro is a mere $5 a month, with the same high quality (uncompressed) photos, and a global CDN. You can store an unlimited number of pictures with Flickr Pro. This is already way cheaper and faster than anything I can set up on my own, as far as I know, and SmugMug is still making money off of this, presumably, enough to cover their free tier.