If an Instagram account was set to private but the user posted links to their photos on other social media platforms, those photos became public, meaning they could still be shared by copying their URL.
And the company has appeared to claim that the function was deliberate and not a flaw – though they have been quick to release a patch to resolve the issue.
Another spokesman told MailOnline: ‘In response to feedback, we made an update so that if people change their profile from public to private, web links that are not shared on other services are only viewable to their followers on Instagram.’Quartz said the loophole was the sort of ‘complexity’ ordinary users had to navigate.
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