Hi, I’ve been using Instander for some time, but even the early beta is outdated by now, and doesn’t work correctly. Does anyone have any recommendations on good Instagram mods? I know about AeroInsta, Honista, MyInsta and few others, but not sure which are safe.

PS: please tell me if this isn’t the right community for this question, I’m not sure but it seems like the best one PPS: I know precisely how bad instagram is, and I still want/need to use it, so please don’t waste your time telling me that.

  • Hurculina Drubman@lemm.eeEnglish
    16·
    4 months ago

    revanced manager has 12 patches for it, the ad blocking ones work at least. although I’m also running an ad block DNS, but I haven’t tried any of the other features because the ad block is the only recommended one.

  • viking@infosec.pubEnglish
    8·
    4 months ago

    Any specific issue you have with Instander? It’s working perfectly fine for me. Only if people post to their story it takes a few minutes to show.

    • piracysails@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      4 months ago

      The latest version is so old I got a prompt to update every time I opened the app.

  • Fonzie!@ttrpg.networkEnglish
    7·
    4 months ago

    Aeroinsta I couldn’t get installed, their website forces me to turn off my adblocker but I think it picked up Firefox’s tracker blocking

    Honista I couldn’t log in, it forced me to turn off my VPN ad blocking (DuckDuckGo blocking trackers)

    I wouldn’t trust either with the ad-free experience

    MyInsta is simply just the Instagram site on mobile. I do get Instagram’s first party ads, still

    • Fonzie!@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      4·
      4 months ago

      If memory serves me well, Barinsta used to be good, now I can’t get it to log in, anymore

    • stepan@lemmy.cafeOPEnglish
      31·
      4 months ago

      MyInsta is not just the website. It’s a mod just like the others. https://myinsta.app The developer claims to not obfuscate his additional code, which seems nice, but I didn’t check that.

      • Fonzie!@ttrpg.networkEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        I never checked the website’s functionality, but the app just serves me something that looks 1:1 like Insta’s mobile site, plus Instagram’s first party ads. I got the impression it was just an Electron browser with adblock pre-installed

        • stepan@lemmy.cafeOPEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          That’s really weird. I included the link just in case we were talking about different mods both named MyInsta. For me, MyInsta is a normal mod of Instgram’s android app, very similar to Instander or Aeroinsta (and probably others, I haven’t tried them)

  • Fleppensteyn@feddit.nlEnglish
    51·
    4 months ago

    I haven’t used it in a while but Aeroinsta was good and probably safe (despite their shady website). Gets rid of unnecessary stuff like ads and allows downloading.

  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    31·
    4 months ago

    I use myinsta. It’s great for removing ads, etc. But there are some minor glitches (eg. repeatedly asking for contacts/location permissions) and it seems to take up more storage.

  • Cronzo@lemmus.orgEnglish
    33·
    4 months ago

    Right now I’m using InstaPro. It’s receiving frequent updates and as for now, I don’t have any major complaints about it.

    If you want to download it, its official website is instamod.net. Watch out for fake links you may find on Google.

    • stepan@lemmy.cafeOPEnglish
      3·
      4 months ago

      I don’t care about those dumb reels so tiktok is not an instagram alternative for me anyways. Also I would never install that thing on my device. There aren’t many apps worse than Instagram for privacy, but TikTok is definitely one of them.