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>This is to help people view photos in Instagram and understand how to have the best experience on the platform, be part of the community, connecting and interacting with people and the things they love”

Allow me to translate:

This is because we realized we couldn't collect as much data as we would like from non-signed in users browsing on computers. As our income is derived mostly from aggregating and selling the data of our users to third party marketers we felt we could increase revenue for our shareholders by no longer allowing non-signed in users to view our platform, ensuring anyone browsing our service is providing the maximum amout of data possible.



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