Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles

est31 wrote: post #2

This is a new change? It's been like that for me ever since I knew of Instagram. You browse two or three images and plop you get a sign up screen.

What country are you in? Definitely never been the case in the US.

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Post by jzl » Tue, Oct 29, 2019, 7:32 AM UTC

Hmm ... very pinteresting news.

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Post by hdra » Tue, Oct 29, 2019, 7:35 AM UTC

est31 wrote: post #2

This is a new change? It's been like that for me ever since I knew of Instagram. You browse two or three images and plop you get a sign up screen.

I don't know if theres been any recent change, but not too long ago, login is only required to view Instagram stories. Then they changed it to block location-tagged postings too. Which is a bummer, since I liked to use the webbrowser to browse location-tagged Instagram posts to discover places to eat at. I haven't used it much since, not sure if they added additional restrictions for non-signed-up users recently.

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Post by near » Tue, Oct 29, 2019, 7:38 AM UTC

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), so now I'm trying Pinterest, but that one also wants you to log in to view full images.

Kind of silly I can't find a good image sharing site in 2019.

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Post by TheChaplain » Tue, Oct 29, 2019, 7:42 AM UTC

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…

How about imgur.com?