Saturday, November 18, 2023
WTF Instagram? Seriously, WTF?
So I'm trying to update the profile on “my Instragram account” when I see this: “Editing your links is only available on mobile. Visit the Instagram app and edit your profile to change the websites in your bio.”
Really?
I can edit my bio, and my gender, but I can't update a link? Because I'm on a desktop computer?
I figure, maybe I can hack the form to enable that field? I toggle the Web Developer Tools in Firefox and immedately see this:
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Heh. But in the meantime …
… and nope.
The link field has no name,
and even if I remove the disabled
attribute,
it won't let me type in it
(and as an aside,
the “gender” field isn't even an HTML field element,
but the word “Male” wrapped in four <DIV>
s and a <SPAN>
, each with fifteen classes attached to them—what the hell?).
I'm so far removed from “modern web development” that I probably can't hack this without significant effort that I'm too lazy to do.
Sheesh.