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You mean to ruin a secondary platform? I've all but stopped using Instagram for the same reason I've all but stopped using FB... there are just too many ads to
by cronix 8y ago
You mean to ruin a secondary platform? I've all but stopped using Instagram for the same reason I've all but stopped using FB... there are just too many ads to scroll past to see what I'm actually there to see (the people I'm friends with/following). Every other post now seems to be an ad/sponsored post. Both platforms have gone overboard to the point that I only visit maybe once/week now instead of daily. I also don't have any FB related apps on my phone since they all share data with FB and want access to every possible damn permission. I just visit the sites in my desktop browser now (and sign out when done). So, they better be charging a LOT more for the ads they show as I don't think I'm in the minority here by visiting a lot less often due to the complete over-saturation of them.
- weberc2 8y agoI'm not arguing that they're doing good things with it; I'm not an Instagram user. I was only observing that Instagram's rise is conveniently (for Facebook) occurring during Facebook's fall.
- nurino 8y agoWell, they are now on their way to also ruin WhatsApp. That could be the third platform they ruin :P
- cronix 8y agoAnd will then be renamed to WhatWasThatApp as everyone abandons it lol
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoThanks Dad.
- executesorder66 8y agoI just flag every ad as spam. After a day or 2 I never saw an ad on Instagram again.
- jvzr 8y agoI've been doing the same for months, and I still see ads. The only effect I see is that ads are worse & worse with every day passing. At some point I hope advertisers will understand that Facebook is wasting their money on people like me. They ought to demand to Facebook that users hostile to ads are not targeted anymore...
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoMe too. I see a huge number of ads on a fairly recent secondary account but none at all on my long-standing personal account.