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Cease and Desist of Facebook and Instagram - Barinsta

35 points by artkulak 5y ago

jordwest 5y ago
Are all these recent cease and desist letters the early sign of a company in its death throes? One can only hope…
jerheinze 5y ago
What was Barinsta? I couldn't find any information on that.
- userSumo 5y ago
  https://f-droid.org/en/packages/me.austinhuang.instagrabber/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/me.austinhuang.instagrabber/ Open source android instagram client
  - jerheinze 5y ago
    Thanks! For those who were wondering like me check: https://web.archive.org/web/20210320124929/https://github.com/austinhuang0131/barinsta https://web.archive.org/web/20210320124929/https://github.co... https://web.archive.org/web/20210125171757/https://barinsta.austinhuang.me/en/latest/ https://web.archive.org/web/20210125171757/https://barinsta.... > The beautiful, open source, and privacy-friendly alternative Instagram client for Android. > If you don't upload posts or stories on Instagram, but you still have to use it to keep in touch with people and contents, you now have an alternative: Barinsta is a beautiful client that allows you to browse Instagram, while removing most of the annoyances (ads, suggestions, useless tabs) and giving you more control of your data.
invalidname 5y ago
Plenty of forks out there already: https://github.com/search?q=barinsta https://github.com/search?q=barinsta
r_singh 5y ago
This makes me wonder…. Would this tool be a candidate for a cease and desist from facebook? https://exportcomments.com/ https://exportcomments.com/
tobr 5y ago
I’m always taken aback by the extreme verbal aggressiveness in letters like these. And then ending it with “Very truly yours”, as if it was a love letter or something. Shameful.
newscracker 5y ago
Two things about this notice; 1. “Facebook takes the protection of the user experience very seriously, and it is committed to keeping its products safe for users to interact and share information.” Only some lawyers (not accusing the entire profession) could write this with a straight face after all the revelations about Facebook and Instagram over the years. You just be eternally high on something to use these words in this context. 2. I wish I could see an alternate reality where The Pirate Bay people respond to this notice (like how they did to various RIAA and MPAA notices). That’s the kind of response this one deserves.

35 points by artkulak 5y ago

jordwest 5y ago

Are all these recent cease and desist letters the early sign of a company in its death throes? One can only hope…

jerheinze 5y ago

What was Barinsta? I couldn't find any information on that.

userSumo 5y ago
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/me.austinhuang.instagrabber/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/me.austinhuang.instagrabber/ Open source android instagram client
- jerheinze 5y ago
  Thanks! For those who were wondering like me check: https://web.archive.org/web/20210320124929/https://github.com/austinhuang0131/barinsta https://web.archive.org/web/20210320124929/https://github.co... https://web.archive.org/web/20210125171757/https://barinsta.austinhuang.me/en/latest/ https://web.archive.org/web/20210125171757/https://barinsta.... > The beautiful, open source, and privacy-friendly alternative Instagram client for Android. > If you don't upload posts or stories on Instagram, but you still have to use it to keep in touch with people and contents, you now have an alternative: Barinsta is a beautiful client that allows you to browse Instagram, while removing most of the annoyances (ads, suggestions, useless tabs) and giving you more control of your data.

invalidname 5y ago

Plenty of forks out there already: https://github.com/search?q=barinsta https://github.com/search?q=barinsta

r_singh 5y ago

This makes me wonder…. Would this tool be a candidate for a cease and desist from facebook? https://exportcomments.com/ https://exportcomments.com/

tobr 5y ago

I’m always taken aback by the extreme verbal aggressiveness in letters like these. And then ending it with “Very truly yours”, as if it was a love letter or something. Shameful.

newscracker 5y ago

Two things about this notice; 1. “Facebook takes the protection of the user experience very seriously, and it is committed to keeping its products safe for users to interact and share information.” Only some lawyers (not accusing the entire profession) could write this with a straight face after all the revelations about Facebook and Instagram over the years. You just be eternally high on something to use these words in this context. 2. I wish I could see an alternate reality where The Pirate Bay people respond to this notice (like how they did to various RIAA and MPAA notices). That’s the kind of response this one deserves.