Unskippable ads may soon make Instagram a nightmare just like YouTube
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Instagram has been testing one of its most controversial features yet: unskippable ads, and it's called Ad Breaks. Here's what we know.
  • downpunxx@fedia.io
    16·
    4 个月前

    If you force advertising onto me to use your service, I will block it, failing that, I will stop using your service, full stop.

  • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world
    10·
    4 个月前

    I mean, with any social media that feeds you content according to a non-disclosed algorithm, can you ever be sure what you’re looking at isn’t an ad? (If it’s not content from someone you know irl)

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
      6·
      4 个月前

      It’s basically all ads if it’s not someone you know. That’s why I’ve never understood why people have like 1000 friends on Facebook and Instagram. I don’t want anyone I don’t know in person appearing on my timeline on those sites. But meta forced it upon me anyways, so I just stopped using the sites.

    • CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 个月前

      Instagram are ads and influencer ads.

      Nothing worth looking at, i’m just there for the near porn that gets thrown on there.

      I love titties man x’D

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
    7·
    4 个月前

    Insta-what?

    I dropped all Meta products years ago and life has been so much better.

    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      4 个月前

      I’ve been considering joining Instagram just so I can follow specific celebrities.

      I’ve never had an Instagram account. I’ve held out for a while.

      • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
        2·
        4 个月前

        There is nothing wrong with Instagram as a concept. The problem is Meta’s software and policies. If you are truly interested in following certain celebrities in it, I would recommend searching for FOSS projects that allow you to do that without Meta software or joining their eco-system.

        • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
          3·
          4 个月前

          Meta is the worst company, run by the worst person. It’s a shame too, because they’ve completely destroyed websites that used to bring us together across great distances. Now their sites are just a garbage fire. What a loss.

  • DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world
    2·
    4 个月前

    Serious question from someone who isn’t terribly technologically literate: if other websites adopt this feature, how will ad blockers adapt? For example, would they be able to fool the site into thinking that you’ve viewed the ad before you actually scroll down?