Purely anecdotal, but my experience with Instagram ads has actually been useful. I have run as blockers since i learned they existed and the only place I see ad

Purely anecdotal, but my experience with Instagram ads has actually been useful. I have run as blockers since i learned they existed and the only place I see ads now is Instagram (I don’t use Facebook proper). Adverisisers have figured out that I run a marketing agency, and I have found dozens of helpful and informative ads through Instagram that show me what others are doing in my business, offer free strategies, or provide software that can make my business run more efficiently and provide better results for my clients. Without these ads I never would have found out about these valuable services and products. Of course I am of two minds on this. On the one hand, it’s useful and ads value to my business. On the other hand, I agree that in the main ads are intrusive annoying and slow down pages, serve malware etc etc. Plus the privacy implications. But for Instagram specifically, I find many ads I see useful and they are never intrusive since they are native to the platform. Instagram is a product I enjoy using and it’s free. I don’t see why the company that runs it shouldn’t make money on the product, esp since the ads they serve are (sometimes) relevant and useful and reasonable in number. I will continue to run ad blockers on every other site though because I do not find this to be the case anywhere else besides Instagram.