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We plan to continue offering a robust service that focuses on readers and the reading experience for the foreseeable future.”

The product will continue to be built and maintained by the same people who’ve been working on Instapaper for the past five years.

The tech start up writes, “We want to emphasize that not much is changing for the Instapaper product outside the new ownership. In Instapaper’s lengthy blog post, the bookmarking service assured users that it would still continue to provide the same quality of service it always.

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compliant Instapaper has been offline in the EU for nearly two months now because of its inability to become GDPR compliant under the jurisdiction of Pinterest. While Instapaper did not give much of an explanation to the switch, many think it may have something to do with the service’s desire to become GDPR. is giving its users a three week grace period to decide what they would like to do in regards to their personal information. The company is primarily made up of people who have worked with Instapaper since its birth in 2013. Earlier today, Instapaper announced in a blog post that a new company called Insta Paper, Inc. However, they have decided that it was time to make a change and go independent.

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Only time will tell what the future holds, but in any case, it’s always nice to see an app’s development team in full control of its product’s destiny.Nearly two years ago, Instapaper was acquired by Pinterest and for a short period of time they have existed under their leadership. A new subscription plan may be in the works, likely with currently unannounced new features. Before Pinterest came along, Instapaper offered a premium subscription option that was later discontinued post-acquisition and its features made publicly available to all users. Looking further out, the service’s business model is a big question mark. In the immediate future, the company has already confirmed it’s working hard on making Instapaper available in Europe again. It will be interesting to see what changes this move brings in the short-term. From an outside perspective, however, it seems like the transition has gone smoothly – which makes today’s announcement all the more surprising. We plan to continue offering a robust service that focuses on readers and the reading experience for the foreseeable future.įollowing Pinterest’s acquisition of Instapaper almost two years ago, there was a reasonable level of concern about what that change would mean for the popular read-it-later service. We want to emphasize that not much is changing for the Instapaper product outside the new ownership. The ownership transfer will occur after a 21 day waiting period designed to give our users fair notice about the change of control with respect to their personal information. Today, we’re announcing that Pinterest has entered into an agreement to transfer ownership of Instapaper to Instant Paper, Inc., a new company owned and operated by the same people who’ve been working on Instapaper since it was sold to betaworks by Marco Arment in 2013.