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

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

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Post by lgvld »

Guest0918231 wrote: post #171

It's unfortunate that a lot of businesses are now inside of Facebook and Instagram walls. I know a number of times in recent months I'd end up on Instagram pages for different businesses. I would be scrolling to view their products and suddenly I'd get hit with the sign-up modal that wouldn't allow me to scroll further (well, technically I could if I opened the developer tools and disabled it, but that road block usu…

Exactly my experience. Actually I think it’s less irritating to block access to any image from the very first click/scroll, than to perversely let the user dive into an account and, suddenly, BAM!! acces denied!.. Because that’s really how it looks for someone who don’t have an Instagram account and is just passing by.

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

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Post by morphicpro »

As 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 with image processing and uploads directly to S3.

https://morphic.pro/snaps

The code is open for others to see how I did it. https://github.com/MorphicPro/morphic.pro

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

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Post by dillutedfixer »

pmlnr wrote: post #196
dillutedfixer wrote: post #194

I begrudgingly started an insta a few days ago. I am a photographer and I have resisted for so long. But this isolation just made me want to stay connected to my classmates and other photographer friends. I have to say, as a photo sharing platform, instagram is awful. Can't upload photos from desktop, no native iPad app (WTF?), and whatever compression they use to display my photos seems to really mess with the quali…

> Can't upload photos from desktop Yes, you can. Open dev tools, set it to mobile, and set it to android. A "+" button will pop up and work fine.

Nice! That does work. Thanks for that.

I'm still a little baffled as to why they don't just allow that on the desktop site, though.

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

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Post by morphicpro »

morphicpro wrote: post #202

As 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…

Also this is one of the big reasons I really hope activity pub takes off and people start to incorp it directly into their own sites.

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

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Post by koheripbal »

hutzlibu wrote: post #198
lmilcin wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I really don't think there are sheeps around who actually believe that. Everybody knows this is just marketing speak in a way, marketing people are expected to speak. Or maybe, there are people who would believe it, but they have an account already. And most simple do not care. They read, they have to create an account to get the content, so they do create an account.

There are - they are called "children", and there are hundreds of millions of them among Instagram's user base.

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

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Post by yummypaint »

appleshore wrote: post #170
cosmotic wrote: post #89

“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…

Another way to say this, how does lying tell the truth? I don't understand corporations that decide to lie like this. I noticed Facebook Messenger does this fun thing where you can open it, start to read a message and then it says "BAM--YOU MUST UPDATE". The fact they intentionally designed it this way makes me want to delete Messenger forever.

You should, followed by facebook. They're doing shadier stuff than that with your personal info

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

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Post by vpEfljFL »

MrStonedOne wrote: post #192
vpEfljFL wrote: post #189

I absolutely adore new experience, it's facebook after all. You can't do it on facebook and now on instagram. I didn't use these products for a long time but IG was definitely moving to that direction. Can't get why some users don't like the change. You're free to decide should you use a product or not. To put it from other perspective, you choose to become a product for instagram to sell or not. If you don't have an…

> Can't get why some users don't like the change. You're free to decide should you use a product or not. Some people aren't quitters. They don't just quit whenever something stops going their way, they try to change it, try to improve it, try to make it better, even if the only way they have to do that is express why its not best. Be more like them.

My point is you're not a customer after all. IG customers are advertisers. Why advertisers wouldn't be happy with a new change?

We do try to improve products we use but in this story unfortunately you don't have a voice because if you're not an advertiser. Think about how much ads you need to sell to earn 1B back at least and sustain operating expenses especially when you're not trying to be lean with your resources.

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

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Post by svantana »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That's not it, the web interface still works as long as you're logged in, no app needed. My guess is they are sick of scrapers and data miners. If login is needed, they can ban and the proxy hustlers will have a hard time.

FWIW, here in Sweden I can still look at feeds without being logged in.

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