VKontakte blocked Instagram links

    Links to Instagram, which users of the VKontakte social network send in private messages or publish on their wall, will no longer be active. The changes in the policy of the social network are associated with the launch on July 17 of the Snapster application, which competes with Instagram .

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    The main change was that links to posts or profiles on Instagram began to turn inactive as soon as you refresh the page. If you send the Instagram.com link in a personal message, the system will convert it into a picture, in the form of a logo of a photo service. In addition, when publishing a link to Instagram in your microblog, it will also be impossible to click on it. At the same time, the changes affected exclusively the Instagram service, links to other resources continue to be active.

    Yesterday (August 3), users also complained that the social network also began to prohibit the transition to instagram.com, as such. Marking it as malicious and containing virus programs. By the end of the day, this problem was fixed.

    Despite all of the above, reverse synchronization between Instagram and VKontakte continues to work. When you publish a picture on Instagram and repost it on VKontakte, it was displayed on the page and the link for the image is active.

    Later, the TJ magazine received an official confirmation from representatives of the social network: “ Yes, we cease to highlight them (links to Instagram) , but do not cut them out. They also do not highlight links at home. We do not touch synchronization."- said the operational director of VKontakte, Andrei Rogozov.

    VKontakte founder Pavel Durov also commented on this situation.

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    At the moment, members of the VKontakte SMMs community are trying to circumvent a new limitation, but so far no universal remedy has been found.

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