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Re:Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App by sosborn on Friday January 04, 2019 @05:07PM (#18828142)
Interesting, they don’t seem to allow this on the desktop browser. Changing the user-agent yo a mobile browser exposes it. What a strange decision.
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Re:Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App by laurentl on Friday January 04, 2019 @06:08PM (#18828615)
I don’t use Instagram so can’t check the code, but I would guess they use something like

    <input type="file" accept="image/*" capture>
Which does what you’d expect on a mobile device (launch the camera) but behaves differently on desktops (opens a file upload dialog). They may have decided that this behavior would confuse users.
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