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"Instagram says 'it's not our intention to sell your photos'"
Reply to: by simon90
The bit before that says "To help us deliver interesting paid or sponsored content". I read that as ads inside instagram.
Yes, but it doesn’t in any way say ads inside Instagram. It just says ‘content’. I believe the word was carefully chosen to make it sounds like the kind of stuff that might appear on Instagram to someone reading it quickly, but that’s not what it says.
Of course, it’s possible that the whole thing was a terrible mistake, that Instagram’s lawyers didn’t know what they were doing, and that Instagram management were a bit confused and didn’t really look at these few words that are critical to their whole business (the whole issue with Instagram since its acquisition was how it’s going to monetise its business). If so, I’d imagine that they are likely to be fired because it looks astonishingly incompetent. But I think the much more likely explanation is what almost the whole world seems to think: that they were testing the water to see how far they could push it.
Reply to: by simon90
Yes, but it doesn’t in any way say ads inside Instagram. It just says ‘content’. I believe the word was carefully chosen to make it sounds like the kind of stuff that might appear on Instagram to someone reading it quickly, but that’s not what it says.
Of course, it’s possible that the whole thing was a terrible mistake, that Instagram’s lawyers didn’t know what they were doing, and that Instagram management were a bit confused and didn’t really look at these few words that are critical to their whole business (the whole issue with Instagram since its acquisition was how it’s going to monetise its business). If so, I’d imagine that they are likely to be fired because it looks astonishingly incompetent. But I think the much more likely explanation is what almost the whole world seems to think: that they were testing the water to see how far they could push it.