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On a side note, if you use instagram, I'm not sure if you've noticed, but literally every 3-4 pictures is an ad now. It's so annoying, they're completely ruinin
by keyle 8y ago
On a side note, if you use instagram, I'm not sure if you've noticed, but literally every 3-4 pictures is an ad now. It's so annoying, they're completely ruining the experience and it affects my retention rate and my will to come back.
- imagetic 8y agoThey're just reinforcing the demise of the platform. Over 80% of the last followers I picked up were bots. At least I'm assuming anyone who followers 4800 people can't be human.
- r3bl 8y agoYou can follow 100k people, it won't matter. You'll still see updates from about 20-30 people or so.
- ObsoleteNerd 8y agoI've been a major Insta user since the beginning, with a few different accounts (I do photography on a few different topics, so I keep them separate to appeal to each niche). I would be on for a few hours a day, every day, chatting to people, sharing photos, etc. I recently deleted all my accounts completely, because it just became so horrible to use. Timeline all over the place, overwhelming number of ads, impossible to use search anymore, Explore that just ignores what you like and shows you stuff they want you to see, etc etc.
- nayuki 8y agoSimilar behavior on Snapchat. After viewing all the photos/videos from 1 to 3 friends, I see an ad, followed by more friend content, an ad, repeat.
- ProfessorLayton 8y agoJust as a point of reference, as a very infrequent Instagram user (Maybe once a week, often much less) I have yet to see a single ad. So it seems like they scale the amount of ads they show depending on how heavily you use the service.
- jobigoud 8y agoI've also stopped using it. I just went there for the first time in months and counted the sponsored posts. They appear every 4, 5 or 6 posts. Are you sure you don't mistake sponsored post for real ones?
- bspammer 8y agoI'm also a very infrequent user. I just checked my feed very carefully, making sure each photo was from someone I was following, and it was over 50 posts before I saw an ad.
- jobigoud 8y agoAnd I'm sure there is still room. In magazines like wired there's a full page ad every other page (last time I checked a few years back). 50% ads is probably where these plarforms are going.
- Jian-Yang 8y agoI no longer use the app, open the website in a browser with an ad blocker, and its is almost usable again.