Instagram on the web

[VanNess]

Public Instagram accounts were always viewable on the web in their entirety - until today. Facebook has now facebooked Instagram where after scrolling through a bit, all content becomes blocked and forces the viewer to sign up. Just as Facebook did before with public Facebook pages. I have always hated Facebook in the past because I find them 50 percent dishonest and 50 percent inept which makes them 100 percent undesirable. When they bought Instagram it seemed inevitable that they wouldn’t resist an opportunity to screw it up and now they have.

As usual the real losers here are the Instagram users who want to have their content seen by the broadest possible audience and Facebook couldn’t care less.

 

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Normally I make fun of people for using services like this, but wait a few days or a week? This is an overlay. Which means you can block it using an adblocker. If you've ever stumbled across an image that opens to Pinterest or similar, it lets you scroll until you see a similar popup. It'll be a userscript, but I'm sure someone much clever has already come up with a solution. Though you can use the element picker on your browser to already do this.

I tried it myself using a celebrity's page and it works just fine using Ublock Origin.

Edit: Should clarify this, but the reason I don't like services like this is that it destroys any chance of decent conversation once you visit friends and family you haven't seen in a while. Also people who take photos of their food. Unless you do food photography for a career, there's something wrong with you.

 

[Tomorrow]

Or just sign into your account and scroll to your heart's content. Crisis averted.