by AppleInsider | May 26, 2021 | Instagram
Instagram has added new options on the platform that allow users to hide the number of like and view counts of other people's posts, as well as the same counts on their own posts. The new options have been introduced to "depressurize people's experience" on the... by AppleInsider | May 17, 2021 | Instagram
For as long as it's been around, Instagram has been a smartphone-oriented social network that doesn't extend to tablet devices and even lacks many basic features in its web browser incarnation, including the ability to post. However, that could be set to change, if a... by AppleInsider | May 5, 2021 | Instagram, OpenSignal, Signal
Encrypted messaging app Signal has had a series of Instagram ads preemptively blocked from the social media platform, after it attempted to show users how much data the Facebook-owned company collects about them and how it's used to push targeted ads. In a blog post,... by AppleInsider | May 2, 2021 | App Tracking Transparency, Facebook, Instagram
As a way to convince users to enable tracking across other apps and websites, Facebook is deploying the tactic of telling users that they must enable tracking as part of the App Tracking Transparency framework in iOS 14.5 if they want to help and keep Facebook and... by AppleInsider | Apr 16, 2021 | Facebook, Instagram
Facebook is facing calls from an international coalition of children's health advocates to abandon its plans to build a version of Instagram for kids, reports The Guardian. The campaign follows news that broke in March which revealed that Facebook is developing a... by AppleInsider | Mar 19, 2021 | Facebook, Instagram
Facebook is developing a version of Instagram thats specifically aimed at children under 13, according to an internal company post (via BuzzFeed News). "I'm excited to announce that going forward, we have identified youth work as a priority for Instagram and have... 