Instagram wants you to clean up your subscribers … without crumpling them

If private Instagram account holders already have a small arsenal of options to restrict access to their posts, this is not the case for public account users. Anyone can subscribe and comment, which allows the "trolls" to operate with impunity. Even if a person is blocked, nothing prevents him from having access to photos through a web browser, without connecting to the network.

Only medium – radical – to guard against any intrusion and to sort draconian: pbad the account privately and manage subscription requests on a case-by-case basis. Which is not the business of many Instagramers in vogue, very followed and who probably have no time to play the digital "bouncers."

I would have sworn I would follow you …

Instagram has therefore decided to react and offer the public accounts an option, currently being tested with certain users, which allows you to unsubscribe someone from the account without him or her noticing it. be warned. A discreet and almost polite way to clean up his list of followers in total

Contacted by the American journalists of The Verge, spokespersons of Instagram have confirmed that a test phase was underway but have not communicated on a possible official launch.

            

                

It seems that more and more users using Instagram's Android application have access to the option. To see if this is your case, go to your profile page, select one of your subscribers, an icon with three points arranged horizontally (or vertically following the smartphone) should appear to the right of name of the person. Tap on it should open a panel giving you the option to unsubscribe (see screenshot above).
We tried to replicate the manipulation on an iOS version of the app but, for the moment, the option n '

Strengthening Account Protection

Among the other development projects in Instagram's cartoons is the dual-authentication system without resorting to using the phone number or sending SMS. TechCrunch reveals that the social network wants to offer an option to use code generated by third-party apps – like the Google Authenticator, for example – to confirm the connection from a device not listed in the user's profile.

A project that could well pbad in the priorities of developers very quickly. Indeed, yesterday, the Motherboard website published a survey (in English) about the piracy of SIM cards highlighting that double authentication by SMS or telephone number could very easily be diverted by malicious people

Sources:
The Verge