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by paulschreiber 2266 days ago
There are a number of Chrome extensions to facilitate instagram downloading.
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Trusting these types of extensions are a gamble nowadays imho. Every month Chrome or infosec researchers are constantly unearthing bad actors that have built but more likely acquired large user base extensions to either inject ads, false ad attribution, or recording user behavioral data for bot fraud heuristics.

I don't disagree thought ... as most aren't privacy conscious

If the CLI is more your thing: https://github.com/althonos/InstaLooter