So they became the new pinterest?
Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles
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Re: Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles
#62Support the federated alternative that is being built based on the same technology (ActivityPub) as Mastodon and Peertube.
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#63They 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 takes a couple of hours to write code to handle exif rotations.
Re: Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pinterest manages to do something horribly stupid and kind of abusive that I usually associates with adult sites ads: show you a preview of something that gets your interest, if you click to get access to it put you through a maze of forms and links all promising the result you asked for at the end, and then when you get to it they don't deliver and instead show other stuff you might like but really you don't because…
They have actually had one positive influence on my life. After having dealt with exactly what you described a few times, I learned that I don't need anything that's on Pinterest. If a search results returns a pinterest link, I ignore it. If I can't find it anywhere except that link, it's as good as a dead link so I move on. This can be extended to much of the internet. So much peace now.
I’m the exact same. Over time I’ve been trained to ignore every link from google search results that points to Pinterest.
Re: Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles
#65Offtopic question.
All Instagram images and videos appear to be hosted a publicly accessible storage even those of private profiles. You just need to know the URL.
Is this security by obscurity really enough?
Re: Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pinterest manages to do something horribly stupid and kind of abusive that I usually associates with adult sites ads: show you a preview of something that gets your interest, if you click to get access to it put you through a maze of forms and links all promising the result you asked for at the end, and then when you get to it they don't deliver and instead show other stuff you might like but really you don't because…
They have actually had one positive influence on my life. After having dealt with exactly what you described a few times, I learned that I don't need anything that's on Pinterest. If a search results returns a pinterest link, I ignore it. If I can't find it anywhere except that link, it's as good as a dead link so I move on. This can be extended to much of the internet. So much peace now.
Sounds like my experience too. Any link on pinterest image, ie from google search is met with login/register form. Well pardon my english but screw that approach, pinterest doesn't exist for me.
Re: Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles
#67Offtopic question. All Instagram images and videos appear to be hosted a publicly accessible storage even those of private profiles. You just need to know the URL. Is this security by obscurity really enough?
I've wondered about that on several sites.
So it's true that it still requires:
a) a user who should have the URL give it to them
or
b) person 1 guessed the URL, like a password since it's usually a long url with a GUID of some type.
But is that acceptable for some reason? Easier development?
Because otherwise you need to:
a) issue one time/short lived token for accessing an image on S3 for instance, for all the images that will be shown on a page when a page loads for an authenticated user.
or
b) proxy the image requests by making an api endpoint for image names, authenticate those requests, fetch the image from a place only the server has access to and stream the image data back.
Re: Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles
#68Odd, private firefox search and opened https://www.instagram.com/kimkardashian/ just fine. I know, dumb example.
Re: Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles
#69They 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…
Speaking of walled gardens. There is probably no service in this world that I hate more, as a non-user, than Pinterest.
Don't worry it sucks as a user as well. Curiosity pushed me to use Google SSO to circumvent their crap one time, and they allowed themselves to subsequently spam my inbox with a flurry of emails. I proceeded to click the "unsubscribe" link in one of them, but to my surprise the spam kept coming. Turns out they have more than a dozen mailing settings and you have to painfully disable each one of them individually. Of course the simpler option is to mark all emails from pinterest.com as spam in the email client.
Especially as a site that specializes in hosting nearly exclusively non-original content, it's so ethically wrong for them to use such tactics.
Pinterest, Quora, Instagram, I never understood why people keep using these clearly unethical websites. Stop using them and other better alternatives will pop out, it's not like you depend on them like you depend on grocery shops or clothing stores. Voting with your attention is easy and cheap.
Re: Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles
#70"The photo-sharing social network has begun locking down its platform by preventing signed-out users from having unlimited access to public profiles.As a result, you’ll now be prompted to either sign up or login after viewing a handful of photos and posts via mobile or desktop web. Worse, there’s no getting around it."
I don't like the change, but it's about 36 photos which is quite reasonable.