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Not surprising Facebook would take a hard stance on 3rd party scraping tools after the CA fallout.

• Lammy 6y ago
  Except CA wasn't third-party and wasn't scraping.
  • edoceo 6y ago
    Right, and can still be the trigger for the visible fallout
    • bdcravens 6y ago
      A few years ago there was a ton of websites that did little more than copy Instagram photos and put their own ads around it. I suspect putting an end to those was the point.
• that_guy_iain 6y ago
  I was working at an influencer marketing company just after the CA. They lost their API access and mostly it seemed like it was teh fallout from CA. But the CEO talked to the guy in charge of Instagram for Europe and he said the main issue Facebook has with it is that they're not part of the value chain. Basically, you're competing with us for marketing on our platform we're going to hinder your ability to do so. To me, how they lock people out of Insta is not about what CA did, it's about stopping competitors.