Instagram issues

Instagram made some very big changes to authentication process. About 70% of our users are affected by them.

Before the changes the process was quite simple:

Sometimes Instagram decided that login from SNAP is “unusual” and asked for confirmation. You just had to open Instagram on your phone and tap “This was me” button on “We have detected an unusual login attempt” screen.

The process become much more complicated now. Instagram is treating different accounts differently. Here is our analysis based on our user data:

1. About 30% of accounts are not affected by the change at all. They work as they worked before.

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