Instagram hates developers

Now that they've started showing ads in the Instagram app, they want to make sure every eyeball looking at Instagram-hosted content is also seeing those ads.

They're no longer interested in letting content exfiltrate that walled garden because their owner's flagship product Facebook still allows that, and runs its own ad network.

Time and time again, a new service comes online, opens an API so you anyone can fill their databases with content -- and after a few years they shut it down. I don't even know why we still feign surprise.