Well, they talk a lot of hot air, answer some completely irrelevant concerns (I am not that much concerned about image ownership from a commercial standpoint, if I take a photo that, I think, has any commercial value… I certainly do not upload it to a social platform first.

The more telling part is that the “thoughts” do proactively avoid to make a single statement about the crux of the biscuit, as correctly pointed out by John Gruber: the selling of metadata (★).

When a company puts out a PR release saying that they’re listening to their critics but do nothing, they’re not listening. Nothing from Instagram besides empty rhetoric. But hey, it’s a free service—so, oh well…