'Instapaper' of the service to be read later independent from Pinterest

" Instapaper " is a groundbreaking existence of the "read later" service developed by Marco Arment . I bought such Instapaper in August 2016 was Pinterest of the image collection service, but in July 2018 I left the ownership and Instapaper became independent.

Instapaper is going independent
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Instapaper will be independent from Pinterest and the ownership of the service will be handed over to the company called Instant Paper established by the person who worked at Betaworks who bought Instapaper from Arment in 2013 . As the service ownership of Instapaper is transferred, the policy concerning the handling of personal information of users will also be changed, so on July 17, 2018, which is 21 days before the ownership is transferred, Instapaper Announcement concerning the independence was done.

Instant Paper is a company established to operate Instapaper, "Instapaper wants to emphasize that the service Instapaper does not change significantly even if the owner changes," Instapaper writes on the official blog. In the future Instapaper will be constructed and maintained by people who have been involved in the development and operation of the service over the past five years, "We will continue to provide robust services focused on the user's reading experience I will continue. "

Instapaper has expressed appreciation to Pinterest for supporting the service over the past two years and said, "We will rebuild the search function with their support, introduce Firefox extensions, upgrade to the latest mobile OS, etc. I was able to optimize it. "

For overseas news media TechCrunch , Instapaper stopped service in Europe in May 2018 according to " EU general data protection rule (GDPR) about reason why Instapaper became independent Instapaper responds to the user's request in the earliest service return Indeed, Instapaper's Twitter account says, "We are working on GDPR compliance and I hope that all the people within the EU area will be able to use the service." It is.

We are working on GDPR compliance and hope to have the service available to everyone in the EU as soon as we can

- InstapaperHelp (@InstapaperHelp) July 16, 2018