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QUESTION ABOUT INSTAGRAM

andreaalvise said:
https://www.football.london/tottenham-hotspur-fc/players/eric-dier-dele-alli-bromance-18652239

Adding another example
This is an english football site,in the article there is an Instagram video and also here there is the upload icon(the arrow).
I watched also other sites and the situation is the same:there is ALWAYS,when in an article an Instagram video is posted,the upload icon and not the share icon. But if you click on the video and watch it on Instagram,there is the share icon (paper airplane).
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I'm just seeing a "video loading" message along with a whirly thing, but no video plays. Of course I've never used Instagram.
 
lunatic59 said:
Okay, I see what's going on ... it's BAD UI design at it's best ... worst?

This looks like the default framework from Instagram when you embed one of their videos on a web page. Examining the underlying html indicates that that icon is for sharing, not uploading. And if you pay close attention, the adjacent icons will turn a subtle shade of gray when you hover over them, indicating that they are active, where the share icon does not. It may well be that sharing from an embedded item -- either photo or video -- is a user option that is enabled or disabled by the owner of the originating account. Instead of hiding inactive icons, they just removed the hover feedback.

I suspect there's a bot the website uses to grab content from Instagram and doesn't modify the html embed code, because it certainly would be easy enough to comment out that icon if it was inactive.
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So even though you click it,is that icon harmless ?
 
There is no link so it's like clicking on a blank page. That's why it doesn't do anything when you click it.
 
You have been given the answer several times. You just seem to have trouble accepting it.

Don't worry, you didn't accidentally share something without the app even asking who you wanted toshare it with.
 
Hadron said:
You have been given the answer several times. You just seem to have trouble accepting it.

Don't worry, you didn't accidentally share something without the app even asking who you wanted toshare it with.
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Ok,but I have a last question:just to confirm,I noticed that if I point the mouse pointer,for istance,on the "like icon"(heart) there is the underlying html and it is possible open the link in a new tab,but if I try this procedure on the arrow there isn't html and it isn't possibile open it in a new tab. What does it mean ?
 
What browser are you using? I can't open either in a different tab (though as I will only open any Facebook site in a sandboxed container tab it's just possible that makes a difference, though I think that's very unlikely).
 
andreaalvise said:
What does it mean ?
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It means there is no html link associated with that icon.

Think of it this way ... you have a toaster and on that toaster are four buttons. The first is for toast, the second is for bagels and the third is for waffles, but the designer of the toaster who thought 3 buttons was asymmetrical so he/she added a fourth that was a fake, just for visual balance. When you press it, it doesn't do anything. The upload/share icon is the fourth button.
 
lunatic59 said:
It means there is no html link associated with that icon.

Think of it this way ... you have a toaster and on that toaster are four buttons. The first is for toast, the second is for bagels and the third is for waffles, but the designer of the toaster who thought 3 buttons was asymmetrical so he/she added a fourth that was a fake, just for visual balance. When you press it, it doesn't do anything. The upload/share icon is the fourth button.
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Ok,so I can be confident because that button,even if put in place of the share icon,shares nothing and generally makes nothing,correct ?
 
andreaalvise said:
Google chrome
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I'll leave that to someone else then. It may be an odd thing to say in an Android forum, but I don't use Chrome at all on any platform (I have an odd relationship with Google: I prefer the openness of Android to iOS, but I dislike many things about their business model and believe they are too intrusive, so prefer to keep them somewhat at arms length).
 
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andreaalvise said:
1)but even if it was a share icon
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I'm not sure you understand. The icon is just a picture. For it to actually do anything there must be an underlying link and here there wasn't. It was just a picture. If you print it out on a piece of paper and tap on it with a pencil, it will do the same amount of nothing.
 
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