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		pjc50 on April 23, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Instagram no longer allows people without an accou... I think this is a deliberate decision, although I'm not sure why. You can download the videos if you're savvy enough to open the dev tools, delete the transparent div, and find the element with the video (which may not be a URL but one of those weird blob: ones). Simples.

ObsoleteNerd on April 23, 2020 [–]

Each time you re-start it counts as another "play" for their metrics. It's been common on various sites for a while now.

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