Friday, June 15, 2018

Instagram no longer snitches when you screenshot Stories


You can go back to recklessly screenshotting your friends’ embarrassing Stories. Several months after Instagram introduced a feature to notify users anytime someone has screengrabbed their Story, the Facebook subsidiary has revealed the functionality is no longer in effect. Instagram has stopped sending screenshot notifications to Story posters, the company told BuzzFeed News yesterday. TNW has since confirmed the change is already in place. While taking a screenshot would previously result in showing a star-shaped icon next to the handle of the person who did the screengrabbing, the field now remains entirely empty. Check out the difference below: It is worth pointing…

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