This Chrome extension makes Instagram `likes` visible again
(Digital Photography Review)

Over the past several months, Instagram has steadily removed publicly visible `likes` from content posted on its platform, a decision that has polarized users. As the company explained earlier this year, hiding `likes` removes the competitive feel from the platform, encouraging users to focus on the content, not how many people are engaging with it. A new Web browser extension changes that. Called `The Return of Likes,` this new Chrome extension enables users to view like and comment counts on images when browsing Instagram using a Web browser. `Instagram has stopped displaying the number of likes and comments in some areas,` developer Socialinsider explains, `[and] that makes the life of a Social Media person very complicated so we thought about lending a hand.` `The Return of Likes` extension is available in the Chrome Web Store now; it doesn`t appear to be available for any other Web browsers at this time.