raminolta wrote:
How do you upload your camera photos to Instagram considering by default photos can only be uploaded from a mobile phone?
EDIT: It turned out that my tip about using the PC for uploading to IG was bad advice (see my post about banning further down on the page), so I have deleted this post.
HelenaN wrote:
Even though Chrome isn't my main browser I use it to upload photos directly from the PC.
I post process them in Lightroom, then export them in the correct size for Instagram.
Open IG in Chrome on your PC and log in. Then right-click somewhere on an empty area of the page and chose "Inspect" (or Ctr + Shift + I).
Now you get lots of code to the right, which you can ignore. Choose the icon for "Toggle device toolbar" (or Ctrl + Shift + M) above the coding. Now you have tricked Instagram to think you're on a mobile and can upload photos.
I used to enjoy instagram I am interested in exotic autos and racing and had many great feeds on these two subjects. I also had about 150 of my favorite images to share with friends and enjoyed that. After facecrap bought them over half of my daily feed was sponsored ads and spam and I had become the product not the customer.
You see the more views your account gets the more money they can charge advertisers for so called visibility. They pay some of these famous people who have over a million followers handsomely because they can sell more ads and charge more for them and untold people are not making a very good living being paid by instagram. Despite reporting fifteen to twenty a day and unfollowing and getting rid of most of my followers it kept getting worse despite repeated emails to instagram. It is another example of what should be a enjoyable experience being ruined by social media and their goal to profit from us.
I finally deleted the account and I do not miss it at all. Is anyone else experiencing the same several friends tell me they do not but somehow I got marked I guess. I make it a point to never buy anything off these sites and type the URL in another browser so I do not get marked as a buyer which opens the floodgates to marketers.
For some reason I am able to manage my facecrap account to where I do not really have this problem and enjoy it, of course I turned off all the political feeds and unfollow several sponsored ads and other every day but nothing like instagram became.
Hmm, I may have given you bad advice above. Not sure it's because of my upload method, but it seems like I have become "shadow banned". On my recent photos every single like/comment are from my followers. Not a single one are from "strangers" and this is exactly what shadow banning is. Your photos are still visible to your followers but not to any one else. I have read that IG uses this method to bully unwanted users into leaving.
It feels really unfair because I have never done anything (besides not using their app for uploading) that they can possibly consider wrong. I had just started to get into it again so it's really disappointing.
IG treats their own webpage like a 3rd party app. I would suggest never logging into IG on your PC and taking all actions from the mobile app only. I have been blocked on IG for just liking photos from the webpage before.
HelenaN wrote:
Hmm, I may have given you bad advice above. Not sure it's because of my upload method, but it seems like I have become "shadow banned". On my recent photos every single like/comment are from my followers. Not a single one are from "strangers" and this is exactly what shadow banning is. Your photos are still visible to your followers but not to any one else. I have read that IG uses this method to bully unwanted users into leaving.
It feels really unfair because I have never done anything (besides not using their app for uploading) that they can possibly consider wrong. I had just started to get into it again so it's really disappointing. ...Show more →
RoamingScott wrote:
IG treats their own webpage like a 3rd party app. I would suggest never logging into IG on your PC and taking all actions from the mobile app only. I have been blocked on IG for just liking photos from the webpage before.
Ouch. Thank you for letting me know! What a shame. I much prefer using IG on the PC and was really glad to have found this way.
I have a Google Pixelbook. It's a Chromebook that can also run android apps. I copy all of the image files to that laptop and then use the Instagram application to upload. Way easier than trying to do it on a phone.
pplskills wrote:
I have a Google Pixelbook. It's a Chromebook that can also run android apps. I copy all of the image files to that laptop and then use the Instagram application to upload. Way easier than trying to do it on a phone.
Can you not upload from a cloud source directly on the chromebook? Seems like you could cut out the "move files to chromebook" step with Google Drive or OneDrive.
HelenaN wrote:
Ouch. Thank you for letting me know! What a shame. I much prefer using IG on the PC and was really glad to have found this way.
Thanks HelenaN and RoamingScott for the very interesting information. This explains behavior on their site that I have been seeing for the last few months. Appreciate that you have shared your experiences.
My instagram is @billdeuster for those that might be interested. You might enjoy my eclectic visual approach.
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Instagram is not that bad if you find a way to eliminate annoying ads and bot spams , for that I use https://spamguardapp.com/, gets the job done. Every popular Insta page uses some program like that because the service is riddled with bots.
On my recent photos every single like/comment are from my followers. Not a single one are from "strangers" and this is exactly what shadow banning is. Your photos are still visible to your followers but not to any one else. I have read that IG uses this method to bully unwanted users into leaving.
, for that I use