Frequently asked questions

A free, browser-based Instagram toolkit plus a daily editorial desk. The tools handle lookups and creative jobs — story viewing for public accounts, downloading public media, hashtag generation, username ideas, fonts, calculators. The guides explain how Instagram privacy and platform mechanics actually work, tested rather than guessed.

A small independent team of privacy researchers, technical analysts and writers. No corporate parent, no data brokerage side-business. The about page has the full story.

Unobtrusive display advertising once ad approval is in place, and nothing else. No paid tiers, no data sales, no affiliate bait that skews recommendations.

No. yzoms is an independent educational website, not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to Instagram or Meta Platforms.

No. Every tool opens and works without any account. A free account only adds a personal activity history — it never unlocks anything, because nothing is locked.

Yes — the entire site is mobile-first. Tools, sliders and article layouts adapt to phones and tablets, and the generators behave identically on Android and iOS browsers.

Instagram rate-limits and gates parts of its platform from server-side access, and availability shifts over time. When a lookup can’t complete, the tool says so instead of hanging — and the guides explain the mechanics behind the walls.

Standard public post, reel, IGTV and story links — instagram.com/p/…, /reel/…, /tv/…, /stories/… — plus profile links and plain @usernames for viewer tools.

No — and neither can any honest service. Private profiles are gated server-side behind follower approval. Sites claiming otherwise monetize surveys, installs or stolen logins. Our scam forensics guide documents the pattern.

For anonymous visitors: standard server logs, nothing more. For account holders: the name, email and activity history you gave us — deletable in one click from your account page. Creative tools run fully on-device; what you type there never leaves your browser.

The no-install design removes the biggest risk channels in this space — APK sideloads and extension permissions. A web page asks for none of the permissions apps do, and we never ask for your Instagram login on any tool page.

No. Lookups show you what a public post already exposes; nothing is copied into a yzoms database because no media database exists.

Named editorial personas — researchers, analysts and reporters — publish one new deep-dive every day, seven days a week. Every article follows the same standard: primary testing, verifiable claims, honest limits.

Yes, and we act on both. The contact form reaches a human; corrections are published with the article, not quietly patched.

Excerpts with attribution and a link are welcome; full republication needs written permission. The terms of use spell it out.