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My guess is that it's to put up an obstacle against crawlers and perhaps also lower the cost of outbound traffic?
by TheChaplain 7y ago
My guess is that it's to put up an obstacle against crawlers and perhaps also lower the cost of outbound traffic?
- Freak_NL 7y agoMore likely it is to be able to create more complete visitor profiles and provide more value to advertisers.
- dwd 7y agoIt's one step as they gradually move Instagram to a place where they can effectively monetise everything, rather than it being open and free. I think where they're heading is to monetise reach, so for anyone posting they will have to boost the post for it to go out to N number of potential user feeds based on how much they pay, same as with Facebook.