[logifail]

> Anything behind a login gate is private data for that registered user only

That's quite the claim, if only the login gate were either always there or indeed always not.

Presuambly such "private" data ought not to be being indexed by search engines and returned to users who search?

"site:instagram.com" is of the order of 228 million pages on google.com, and "site:facebook.com" is another 422 million.

[nojito]

pretty sure you get hit with a login gate if you navigate to the results via site:instagram.com no?

[logifail]

> you get hit with a login gate if you navigate to the results via site:instagram.com

Nope, I just tried it (private browser session, no IG activity from my IP recently)

google.com -> "site:instagram.com nojito" -> results -> www.instagram.com/explore/tags/nojito/ with a page of photos.

Quickly scrolling down the page for several dozen photos does eventually trigger the login box, though.