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I have Firefox setup to not launch apps on android with permission. I don't have Instagram/Facebook/etc installed. Attempting to view a Instagram link on mobile is the most hostile thing in existence. You essentially can't, but it so aggressively routes you to the website based Google play store it's horrifying.

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Whichever devs implemented the Instagram behaviour ought to have their computer taken off them.

100% the worst experience. “Oh you don’t have the app? No big deal, let’s (maybe) play the video anyway but remove the audio, obscure half the screen, and make any interaction redirect and then bounce to the App Store. Why won’t you download our app already????”

They have to be pushy, it's how they install spyware which use tracking methods that would be a CFAA violation and prison time for anyone else: https://localmess.github.io/

Thank you for this information

I've been told Zuckerberg - as opposed to murdering competition in the crib, despite him being ON RECORD IN EMAILS as saying 'they can hurt us' - bought a company that was barely anything. It "had 12 employees" or whatever. How they've "grown it" or whatever. Not what I see. I see it as competition killing. People really liked IG... in 2012. Now it's a poster child (or is that Whatsapp?) for antitrust

I don't use IG but my girl does and she likes to show me things. She does use the app and it drives me absolutely nuts how she tries to show me a video or image and I can't actually see/read the main point of it because there's a million gizmos (buttons etc) in the way that seem like they can't be hidden. Like actually 30% of the video is obscured by this pointless crap.

I figure if they can't make a functioning website, the odds they can make an app are basically zero.

You can have Firefox and struggle with apps BUT you visit Instagram? This is actually possible both in one person? Wow.

People share links to Instagram with me. It isn't something I seek out myself.

You don't have a group chat where friends are posting memes and videos?

I decided to not use Facebook.

I don't even want to argue whether you should be this guy or that guy. It's the mixture that excited me. :)

If you are on Facebook, you don't need to care what browser to use and you don't need to struggle with apps. Either have your own opinion and try to be consistent, credible and reliable with its implementation. Or be a good Normie. Eat Facebook - but take it as it's served to you.

Don't tell yourself and people around you a story of someone who cares, when in fact you use Facebook.

Did you respond to the wrong comment?

I don't use Facebook. I have a text message group chat with my friends where occasionally links to Instagram get posted. That's why i occasionally interact with Instagram, and why i asked if you have such a group chat

Sry, I just forgot that Instagram is completely and absolutely not Facebook and has absolutely no relationship to it. I must be hallucinating and absolutely not answering to you but to some completely different thread. Because I was writing about Facebook, while you..... wrote about Instagram.....

I mean the comment doesn't make much sense regardless, but they are indeed separate platforms under the same owner, having a Facebook account grants you no access to Instagram. I have accounts with neither.

And you still just won't answer my question, so whatever, screw you then. Bye

I just today noticed how the "install app" button is placed precisely under (and around) the "sign up" overlay's close button. Sneaky bastards.

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