[HN Gopher] Bibliogram, Open-source front-end for Instagram, is ...
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       Bibliogram, Open-source front-end for Instagram, is being
       discontinued
        
       Author : lurtbancaster
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2022-09-01 21:47 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (cadence.moe)
 (TXT) w3m dump (cadence.moe)
        
       | dspillett wrote:
       | _> Before we start: If Bibliogram has been helpful to you, please
       | consider making a donation!_
       | 
       | Before asking me to consider a donation, consider cutting the
       | silly referrer based moan about the the site that referred me to
       | yours so I have to jump through a hoop to see the content.
        
         | [deleted]
        
         | textadventure wrote:
         | It stands to reason that they don't care for HN referred
         | donations as the hoop seems to be very deliberately put in
         | place for a reason.
        
       | fallingknife wrote:
       | Referrer filter, so I right clicked and "open link in new tab"
       | but still referrer filter. Don't like that the browser sends that
       | info with that option. That should be equivalent to copy/pasting
       | the URL.
        
       | nailer wrote:
       | Original contents :
       | https://web.archive.org/web/20220901223055/https://cadence.m...
        
       | prvit wrote:
       | lol, OP completely missed out on the biggest IG ratelimit bypass.
       | You could just use IPv6 and make literally millions of requests
       | per second from a single server with a /48. (Oh! And before that
       | you could just spoof X-Forwarded-For)
       | 
       | I printed money using this to automatically take good usernames
       | as they became available.
        
         | carabiner wrote:
         | How much did you make total?
        
           | prvit wrote:
           | A little over $2M, but that number keeps growing because I
           | still have loads of usernames despite instagram patching the
           | ratelimit bypass.
        
             | ozarker wrote:
             | Jesus, more power to you I guess
        
       | unicornporn wrote:
       | It's been nonfunctional for at least over a year. Changes to
       | Instagram made impossible to bypass the wall protecting the
       | garden (or landfill).
        
       | rektide wrote:
       | I found a really awesome "public instance" vps node that had a
       | bunch of utils & anonymous public interfaces webapps (nitter,...)
       | running on it for all.
       | 
       | They also had a list of things they dont support, with reasons
       | why. Meta interfacing were listed (including to bibliogram), and
       | typically with links to fire-bot takedown requests to kingdom
       | come. No one else has anything like this. Very very unique
       | company.
        
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       | jeroenhd wrote:
       | Looks like there's a referrer filter for HN. Copy URL and open in
       | a new tab, I guess?
       | 
       | My personal Bibliogram instance has been blocked for months. With
       | Instagram blocked as part of my wider PiHole block on Facebook's
       | domain and public Bibliogram instances shutting down soon, I
       | guess I'm going to just ignore Instagram links from now on.
        
         | cercatrova wrote:
         | I use an extension to strip referrer stuff from the URL, works
         | well
        
       | annadane wrote:
       | Take down some of the most egregious pages and disinformation?
       | No, we (Facebook/Meta) will waste our time shutting down anything
       | remotely challenging to our monstrosity we're trying to conquer
       | the world with (see also: shutting down the NYU Ad Observatory,
       | or any countless other examples)
        
         | Bakary wrote:
         | What incentive have we given them to stop?
        
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