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Instagram App To Receive New and Exciting Features

Most users of social media platforms have grown attached to the Instagram App and what it offers. From art and fashion to sports and entertainment, Instagram is an app that helps a lot of people and business to be viewed and appreciated for their authenticity. Starting today, Instagram is adding a lot of new features that will strengthen the connections between people. Let’s see what is happening new in the app.

One of the first changes will happen on the Instagram Stories. This way of expressing and interaction between people will receive Donation Stickers. What are the Donation Stickers? It’s a feature that will start in the U.S. and will help users to create a nonprofit fundraiser.

So, if you want to raise some money for a cause, you can do it on your Instagram Stories and apply a donation sticker from the tray. After you have chosen your donation sticker, you’ll have to select a nonprofit to support. You can customize it as you like. For viewing the amount of money raised, just swipe up on your story and see the numbers.

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A second feature will be the New Camera & Create Mode. This feature will be released globally, and it will have a new camera design like the Create Mode. The Creative Mode will have the tools and effects that you can add to your photos and videos. To enter the Creative Mode, swipe from the right and all the tools will be shown.

The last feature added to Instagram is the possibility to shop from creators. This feature will give influencers, creators and store to sell their products through the app. The method won’t make you leave Instagram, just tap on the product and a tab will take you to their page from where you can buy what you wish for.

Finally, besides these new features, Instagram has added the change to allow you to hide “Likes” on the app. This feature will be released in Canada this week.

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WhatsApp and Instagram Unification Under Facebook Messenger To Cause Serious Privacy Issues

WhatsApp is undoubtedly the best and the most popular instant messaging app for both Android and iOS. On the other hand, Instagram surpassed Facebook and became the most used social network. However, Facebook owns both WhatsApp and Instagram, and now, reportedly, the Zuckerberg’s company wants to unify WhatsApp and Instagram under Facebook Messenger.

While the idea to create a unified instant messaging app by merging WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger is not surprising since Facebook owns all of the before-mentioned apps, that might cause serious privacy issues for users. The problems might occur from the struggle to implement end-to-end encryption to the resulting app which would contain three different applications.

Among the three apps mentioned above, only WhatsApp enjoys end-to-end encryption, so, both Instagram and Facebook Messenger do not encrypt users’ messages. “Will the new platform impose default end-to-end encryption for all users regardless of which service they are actually using?” asked Davey Winder of the Forbes.

WhatsApp and Instagram Unification Under Facebook Messenger To Cause Serious Privacy Issues for Users

To unify WhatsApp and Instagram under Facebook Messenger and add end-to-end encryption to the resulting platform “is harder to achieve, at least in a way that could be thought of as being secure, than it sounds. Or at least it will be unless the plan is to completely re-engineer all three messaging services from the ground up,” Winder said on Forbes.

Now, more cybersecurity experts complained about the Zuckerberg’s decision to unite WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger into one big instant messaging platform. “Architecting early is easier than bolting features on artificially and messily later. At the very least, Mr. Zuckerberg should take advantage of the situation by leaning forward with a plan for privacy and be a hero instead of later suffering the consequences,” said Sam Curry, the chief security officer at Cybereason.

“This move [WhatsApp and Instagram unification under Facebook Messenger] could potentially be good or bad for security/privacy. But given recent history and financial motivations of Facebook, I wouldn’t bet my lunch money on good,” stated Matthew Green, a highly-respected cryptographer, on Twitter.

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Video Downloader Instagram Repost App 1.1.67 – The Best IGTV Video Downloader

Have you ever wonder which is the easiest method to download and repost images and videos from Instagram and iGTV? Well, here’s the answer: Video Downloader Instagram Repost App. It is considered the best IGTV video downloader, and now it reached to Video Downloader Instagram Repost App 1.1.67 version which came out with several improvements.

Video Downloader Instagram Repost App 1.1.67 – Features

Video Downloader Instagram Repost App allows users to download and repost videos from Instagram, IGTV, and Vine in just a few clicks. It is a 100 percent free application, and, according to the official release notes, it boasts some useful features:

  • Download videos or repost from Instagram & Vine
  • IGTV downloader
  • Download pictures or repost on Instagram & Vine
  • Save videos and photos from Instagram in your gallery
  • Copy tags from Instagram & Vine
  • Share your favorite videos and images with others
  • Repost on Instagram & Vine

How To Use Video Downloader Instagram Repost App

Video Downloader Instagram Repost App is very straightforward to use. All you have to do is to open Instagram or Vine and copy the URL of the video or image and paste it on Video Downloader Instagram Repost App. Then the app is giving you the option to either download or repost the respective video or photo.

Video Downloader Instagram Repost App 1.1.67 – The Best IGTV Video Downloader

Video Downloader Instagram Repost App 1.1.67 is now available. The new version boasts all the before-mentioned features and functions, and it doesn’t come out with any new one or visual changes. However, under the hood, Video Downloader Instagram Repost App 1.1.67 boasts minor bug fixes, plus several stability and performance improvements.

In conclusion, the best IGTV video downloader on Android, Video Downloader Instagram Repost App allows users to download or report videos and images from Instagram, IGTV, and Vine in only a few clicks.

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Instagram Added “Close Friends” Feature To Permit Users To Share Stories To A More Limited Group

While in June 2017 Instagram tested the new “Favorites” function that allowed users to share more but limited to a smaller group of their followers, now Instagram added “Close Friends” feature which permits people to share stories to a limited group of friends.

Practically, “Favorites” and “Close Friends” are the same thing, as “Close Friends” is, in reality, the final version of the former function which has been under testing since recently. However, “Close Friends” feature in Instagram comes out with several changes in comparison with “Favorites.”

To make use of this new function in Instagram, just open up your Stories camera within the app and take a photo or a video and, as soon as you’re done, you’ll notice a small green circle with a star inside it. When you tap that button, Instagram will redirect you to your list of close friends from where you can add people to your “inner circle.”

Instagram Added “Close Friends” Feature To Permit Users To Share Stories To A More Limited Group Of People

Also, Instagram will suggest you which friends you should add, depending on how many times you were interacting with them, while you can just use the search bar to look for specific friends in your list.

Different from the Finstagram close friends list, your followers cannot request you to add them to your new “Close Friends” list which is mainly designed for you only to permit you to share your Insta Stories to a more limited group of people. You can freely add or remove people from your lists, which is great news, too.

As more and more people move from Facebook to Instagram, every new feature in the Instagram social network is more than welcome by the users. Also, this new “Close Friends” feature helps actual friends keep in touch much closer than ever.

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Instagram To Eliminate Fake Accounts, Followers, and Malicious Third-Party Apps

Instagram wants a clean and controlled platform, and from now on will pay particular attention to the activity generated not by people, but by third-party applications with access to accounts, according to a statement. These apps have the objective of tracking and sending false messages, to grow the base of followers of those who use them, without requiring a manual effort. It is frequent and common to see them engage in SPAM practices.

Instagram will identify the accounts that use these applications by using artificial intelligence, both in the detection and in the elimination of the activity that violates the Community Norms and Conditions of Use of Instagram.

One of the most worrying parts of the matter is that to operate, as is logical, applications that generate fake content to access the username and password of Instagram users on behalf of those who produce content. It is very shocking that this can happen in the era in which the Cambridge Analytica case has made users rethink using Facebook, because access to all data and control granted is not more significant in this case, but is total.

Instagram To Eliminate Fake Accounts, Followers, and Malicious Third-Party Apps

Therefore, Instagram will send a message within the application to the accounts that use these malicious apps, informing them of the removal of content. In this regard, Instagram will also ask users to change their password to revoke third-party access.

Those users who continue to use the applications despite the warnings, may have their Instagram experience limited, as certain functions would be denied. The false content of Instagram was not very annoying at the moment, but seeing the network lose personality in the same sense that Facebook was filled with clickbait is something that the company (Facebook) does not want.

Recently, Facebook claims to have deleted 7.8 million photos on child pornography thanks to artificial intelligence, while it also eliminated 583 million fake accounts in the first quarter of this year.

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