I only ever look at IG posts that show up in chats as parts of conversations and IG appears to have banned my phone from viewing their content at all. Fine with

I only ever look at IG posts that show up in chats as parts of conversations and IG appears to have banned my phone from viewing their content at all. Fine with me, as there is zero chance I will ever create a login on their site anyway, but I tell the people in the chats that IG links don't work for non-users, and so they share less of the content. I call this the, "Fuck me? Fuck you!" pattern. Nothing quite says "hemorrhaging MAU," like dark patterns to get people to login, and "urgent account information" emails to get those same logins. Someone should take a hard look at those numbers, as I'd suspect they're a bit soft.