Privacy and ad settings

Stillview is an independent viewer for public Instagram profiles. You can look up a username without entering your Instagram password or sharing your own follow list.

When you look up a profile

Stillview receives the username, the tab you open and any post or story ID needed for the lookup. Typing in a follow list first filters results in your browser. Choosing Search list also sends the search term to the server.

The server requests the necessary data from connected lookup services such as API Direct and InstaGAPI. Deployments with public link previews may also send a public link or username to Instagram, OGInstagram or Microlink. The server and your browser briefly reuse lookup results in memory.

Viewing or opening media can connect your device to the media host, which receives your IP address and the requested file. An external viewer opens its own site. A story link to that site may include the username. Hosting providers can process request URLs, timestamps and IP addresses for delivery and security.

What stays on your device

Your browser remembers the interface language you select. Bookmarks save the username, display name and profile image URL in this browser. Open your saved profiles and tap the bookmark again to remove one. Clearing Stillview’s site data in your browser resets all bookmarks and ad preferences.

When you open a followers or following CSV, Stillview reads the file in the current tab. Delete downloaded photos and videos on the device where you saved them.

When you contact the operator

After you submit the form, a Cloudflare database stores the page URL, your description, optional reply email, submission time and receipt number. The operator uses these details to handle and reply to your request. Records are deleted after 90 days. Leave ID documents, payment information and private sharing tokens out of your message and link. To ask for correction or deletion of an earlier report, include its receipt number.

To limit repeat submissions, the site derives a code from your IP address that changes each day. The reports database stores the code instead of the original IP address.

Advertising choices

Where home ads are enabled, visitors located in South Korea can choose whether to load an ad after scrolling past the example profiles. Allowing ads requests at most one Google ad on the home page per tab. Your browser remembers the choice and whether an ad was requested during the tab session.

Stillview requests non-personalized ads. Google and its advertising partners may process your IP address, the page URL, cookies or device identifiers to deliver and measure ads and prevent fraud. How Google uses data on partner sites · Google My Ad Center

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