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I'm in the ultra minority, but I use https://instagram.com https://instagram.com on my phone and I've never seen an ad.

by malingo 7y ago

mattycannz 7y ago
How?
- saagarjha 7y ago
  Adblocker in their browser, maybe?
  - dangwu 7y ago
    Instagram ads appear in feeds as normal posts. I would assume that they are not blockable.
    - olex 7y ago
      At least on Twitter, it's fairly easy to build a filter for µBlock (or similar blockers) that will trigger on having "promoted" within a Tweet <div> and hide it. At least in the Instagram app, the ads have the same "promoted" text in their heading, so similar filtering can probably be applied to the web version.
      - Kiro 7y ago
        It's harder than that: https://twitter.com/aaronkbr/status/1071214578980261888 https://twitter.com/aaronkbr/status/1071214578980261888 "Facebook adds 5 divs, 9 spans and 30 css classes to every single post in the timeline to make it more difficult to identify and block 'Sponsored' posts, oh my."
        olex 7y ago
        Damn. I'm kinda happy it's easier with Twitter. This is some bullshit...
    - jobigoud 7y ago
      AFAIK there aren't any ads when visiting via the website. Only in the app.
kevinh 7y ago
Are you able to block the unlabeled sponsored content the article is referring to?
o10449366 7y ago
I have never seen an Instagram ad on my phone using both the Android and iOS apps. I don't know why, but there are certain accounts that have ads disabled (I'm not the only one [0]). I guess I just got lucky. My alternate accounts all get ads like normal. I don't think I would use Instagram if I got ads like my friends do. [0] https://www.fastcompany.com/90166955/i-have-a-secret-ad-free-instagram-account-and-its-bliss https://www.fastcompany.com/90166955/i-have-a-secret-ad-free...
- dc_gregory 7y ago
  huh, how odd. I've never seen ads on Instagram either, and assumed that was the default experience. I guess the A/B control group gods smiled on us.
- malingo 7y ago
  That's incredible; I'll consider myself lucky and keep enjoying it for now. Edit: I had assumed the trick was using the mobile website, since I used to see ads when I used the Android app.

I'm in the ultra minority, but I use https://instagram.com https://instagram.com on my phone and I've never seen an ad.

mattycannz 7y ago

How?

saagarjha 7y ago
Adblocker in their browser, maybe?
- dangwu 7y ago
  Instagram ads appear in feeds as normal posts. I would assume that they are not blockable.
  - olex 7y ago
    At least on Twitter, it's fairly easy to build a filter for µBlock (or similar blockers) that will trigger on having "promoted" within a Tweet <div> and hide it. At least in the Instagram app, the ads have the same "promoted" text in their heading, so similar filtering can probably be applied to the web version.
    - Kiro 7y ago
      It's harder than that: https://twitter.com/aaronkbr/status/1071214578980261888 https://twitter.com/aaronkbr/status/1071214578980261888 "Facebook adds 5 divs, 9 spans and 30 css classes to every single post in the timeline to make it more difficult to identify and block 'Sponsored' posts, oh my."
      - olex 7y ago
        Damn. I'm kinda happy it's easier with Twitter. This is some bullshit...
  - jobigoud 7y ago
    AFAIK there aren't any ads when visiting via the website. Only in the app.

kevinh 7y ago

Are you able to block the unlabeled sponsored content the article is referring to?

o10449366 7y ago

I have never seen an Instagram ad on my phone using both the Android and iOS apps. I don't know why, but there are certain accounts that have ads disabled (I'm not the only one [0]). I guess I just got lucky. My alternate accounts all get ads like normal. I don't think I would use Instagram if I got ads like my friends do. [0] https://www.fastcompany.com/90166955/i-have-a-secret-ad-free-instagram-account-and-its-bliss https://www.fastcompany.com/90166955/i-have-a-secret-ad-free...

dc_gregory 7y ago
huh, how odd. I've never seen ads on Instagram either, and assumed that was the default experience. I guess the A/B control group gods smiled on us.
malingo 7y ago
That's incredible; I'll consider myself lucky and keep enjoying it for now. Edit: I had assumed the trick was using the mobile website, since I used to see ads when I used the Android app.