Third party connection to instagram - What does it do?

[neunzehnachtneun]

Hi together,
I'm just wondering, why there is a third-party-connection to instagram loading some javascript? What is its effect?
Seems to be this one here: https://platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js

I deactivated it with adding some code to functions.php:

function wp_dequeue_instagram() {
    wp_dequeue_script( 'vendor-instagram' );
    wp_deregister_script( 'vendor-instagram' );
}
add_action( 'wp_print_scripts', 'wp_dequeue_instagram', 100 );

Until now I am not experiencing any issues with this deactivated connection. But nevertheless I would like to know, why it has been implemented so?

Cheers!
Sebastian

[mariusjopen]

Dear @neunzehnachtneun
we will get back to you in a bit!

Best!

Marius

[neunzehnachtneun]

Dear @mariusjopen

I just found out, that you implemented a checkbox (See Lay Options -> Other -> Embed Instagram JavaScript) in one of the last updates, to not embed the instagram javascript code. So first my wp_dequeue_instagram is not needed anymore and second I know now, that the js is needed to embed instagram stuff.

Thanks anyway!

[edgrbnz]

Good to know!
Thanks for investigating.