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This has been causing me a fair bit of inconvenience at work as I quit Instagram last year (decided it was toxic) but still need to research people/trends in my

This has been causing me a fair bit of inconvenience at work as I quit Instagram last year (decided it was toxic) but still need to research people/trends in my design job. Guess I'll have to create a fake profile, which in a way will have the opposite of their intended "join the community" action point.

BlueGh0st 7y ago
Goodluck with that. They ask for government issued photo ID in many cases for new accounts.
- mkj 7y ago
  My instagram login made last week with a nonexistent email domain seems to work fine. Who cares if they ban it eventually!
  - rchaud 7y ago
    I'm going to try this. I foolishly created an account w/ my FB login back in 2012, and although I rarely use it now compared to a couple of years ago, I would like to use it without it being tied to my personal email.
  - landcoctos 7y ago
    >Who cares if they ban it eventually! They will.
- 24gttghh 7y ago
  wtf. that is creepy as hell.
- danShumway 7y ago
  How does something like this scale? Does Instagram have a real person checking each one? If not, how would a computer verify that a photo ID was valid?
  - BlueGh0st 7y ago
    A real person, so it seemed, responded when I told them they were out of their damned minds.
pingyong 7y ago
If this is about the login overlay on people's profiles, you can just zap that with ublock origin.
lunchables 7y ago
>Guess I'll have to create a fake profile, which in a way will have the opposite of their intended "join the community" action point. I don't think they care if it's "fake". They will still be able to uniquely identify you and correlate your activity against a number of other sources to build a more complete profile on you, including what you do on Facebook.
rchaud 7y ago
I find browsing IG on a computer to be a lot less habit-forming than pulling it up on a phone. And, if you open up the element inspector in your browser's dev tools, you should be able to view and download the full-resolution image. It's buried behind layers of nested divs, but you can still get to it. Not surprisingly, they do everything possible to make the desktop experience god-awful.
- doc_gunthrop 7y ago
  I rarely check out IG, but one of the annoying things about the experience is when viewing videos. There is no volume control so you end up with whatever audio is playing at full blast. They also don't provide a slider for playback so you can't do things like rewind to a second ago. I ended up writing a Chrome extension to avoid that mess.[1] 1: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ig-video-controls/mlianfbnfdbddpdanhdkmbnjmeppihjd https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ig-video-controls/...
frittig 7y ago
FYI, you can only have 5 accounts per IP, so don't lose them (or just use a proxy to make a new account)

BlueGh0st 7y ago

Goodluck with that. They ask for government issued photo ID in many cases for new accounts.

mkj 7y ago
My instagram login made last week with a nonexistent email domain seems to work fine. Who cares if they ban it eventually!
- rchaud 7y ago
  I'm going to try this. I foolishly created an account w/ my FB login back in 2012, and although I rarely use it now compared to a couple of years ago, I would like to use it without it being tied to my personal email.
- landcoctos 7y ago
  >Who cares if they ban it eventually! They will.
24gttghh 7y ago
wtf. that is creepy as hell.
danShumway 7y ago
How does something like this scale? Does Instagram have a real person checking each one? If not, how would a computer verify that a photo ID was valid?
- BlueGh0st 7y ago
  A real person, so it seemed, responded when I told them they were out of their damned minds.

pingyong 7y ago

If this is about the login overlay on people's profiles, you can just zap that with ublock origin.

lunchables 7y ago

>Guess I'll have to create a fake profile, which in a way will have the opposite of their intended "join the community" action point. I don't think they care if it's "fake". They will still be able to uniquely identify you and correlate your activity against a number of other sources to build a more complete profile on you, including what you do on Facebook.

rchaud 7y ago

I find browsing IG on a computer to be a lot less habit-forming than pulling it up on a phone. And, if you open up the element inspector in your browser's dev tools, you should be able to view and download the full-resolution image. It's buried behind layers of nested divs, but you can still get to it. Not surprisingly, they do everything possible to make the desktop experience god-awful.

doc_gunthrop 7y ago
I rarely check out IG, but one of the annoying things about the experience is when viewing videos. There is no volume control so you end up with whatever audio is playing at full blast. They also don't provide a slider for playback so you can't do things like rewind to a second ago. I ended up writing a Chrome extension to avoid that mess.[1] 1: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ig-video-controls/mlianfbnfdbddpdanhdkmbnjmeppihjd https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ig-video-controls/...

frittig 7y ago

FYI, you can only have 5 accounts per IP, so don't lose them (or just use a proxy to make a new account)