Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles

Re:Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public pro... by imglorp on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @07:40AM (#21385997)

And what's up with their hate of zooming images in desktop?

They HAVE the full res image. There's even bookmarkets to snag the image. What twisted product goal led to the current state?

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Re:Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public pro... by Angostura on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @09:51AM (#21387117)

I seem to recall vaguely that this redesign was part of a response to a legal challenge for copyright infringement from one of the large photo libraries.

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Re:Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public pro... by rchaud on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @09:59AM (#21387216)

Interesting. I have wondered how IG and Pinterest get away with hosting so many photos that weren't uploaded by the copyright holder. Was that the solution? Upload the pics at a degraded resolution and claim that it's not infringement?

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