Be careful with sharing this URL in your Instagram DMs. I built something similar a few weeks ago for watching Instagram reels, shared a link to it with someone on Instagram, and my account instantly got suspended because this type of stuff violates Instagram's TOS and they crack down really hard on it.
thecaspercraft•2mo ago
How can that be, aren't Instagram Dms end-to-end encrypted, curious on how they find these kind of messages
pxc•2mo ago
They make the app that stores the plaintext at each end... they don't need to decrypt your messages across the wire to read them.
thecaspercraft•2mo ago
Ah I understand now, thank you. So they can actually read it just not in transit but from the app, isn't that a security violation?
cadamsdotcom•2mo ago
A what violation?
I kid. But only sorta.
thecaspercraft•2mo ago
They advertise e2e as something that is to secure your messages and no one can read it including them, just got surprised when I realized they can view all the messages before transit, I never even thought that that they can do that before encryption
cadamsdotcom•2mo ago
They control the software doing the encryption & decryption - they could ship your private keys to themselves if they truly wanted to be evil.
Who would know?
krageon•2mo ago
All e2e encrypted apps can do this. It's the price you pay for a completely closed ecosystem that coddles you at every turn because you're too much of a little bean to know what real security is.
Edit: this isn't a dig at you, it's a dig at how google and apple treat you
thecaspercraft•2mo ago
I didn't know that they are able to do this, now that I know it just makes perfect sense.
blahaj•2mo ago
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r0fl•2mo ago
I had an account suspended for a few days a while back when trying a similar product
I’ll never use anything that automates use in a meta or google product from my accounts again
coldtrait•2mo ago
I've been using modded versions of Instagram on my Android device for a few years now. Never had an issue, but I do get there is a risk.
subscribed•2mo ago
Which one is usable now? I was briefly using AeroInsta and Instander as an experiment, worked well, but afair they are not very up to date? I can provide temporary email if you don't want to post it.
coldtrait•2mo ago
AeroInsta still works. MyInsta is another, works well for blocking Reels and Explore sections. AeroInsta doesn't have that feature as far as I know, but has cool features like menu options to copy caption text and comment text.
kmoser•2mo ago
How can you use this to view a reel when you don't know the username?
CodeCrusader•2mo ago
Doesn't look to work
CodeCrusader•2mo ago
Specifically "Please try again later..."
curiousgal•2mo ago
If a user has an IG tag in their description, clicking on it leads to https://anon-viewer.com/?url=. Is this site just a warpper around that website? Hmm
aster0id•2mo ago
thecaspercraft•2mo ago
pxc•2mo ago
thecaspercraft•2mo ago
cadamsdotcom•2mo ago
I kid. But only sorta.
thecaspercraft•2mo ago
cadamsdotcom•2mo ago
Who would know?
krageon•2mo ago
Edit: this isn't a dig at you, it's a dig at how google and apple treat you
thecaspercraft•2mo ago