Hi, I’ve been using Instander for some time, but even the early beta is outdated by now, and doesn’t work correctly.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.
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.
I’m currently using Distraction Free Instagram which allowed me to disable the explore and reels tabs. Also appears to block ads. Sadly not open-source
I do too. It is open source https://www.distractionfreeapps.com/source.html
That’s an unconventional way of sharing source. How do we know the built apk is built from that source?
I agree, I am not the one that made the app. But anyway it’s exactly the same with github apk releases. Just build the app with the code and compare I guess ?
Tried it but nothing showing up in the feed.
Is there anything else to do?
I use Revanced Instagram.
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.
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
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.
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
