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>which will let users verify their accounts using a government ID and get a blue badge, as it looks to help content creators grow and build communities Useless
by weberer 4y ago
>which will let users verify their accounts using a government ID and get a blue badge, as it looks to help content creators grow and build communities
Useless bullshit. I was hoping for a paid model where you can get rid of ads for good. Instagram has become unusable over the past year as they shove ads into more and more places. Its like reading a book and every time you turn the page, you have a random chance of getting smacked in the face.
- profstasiak 4y agoproblam with paying to stop ads is - the people most willing to pay to stop ads are richer than average and meta earns more from serving ads to them than they are willing to pay
- freediverx 4y ago[dead]
- hyperbovine 4y agoThat's a good point, I had never looked at it that way. But here's my counterpoint: the people willing to pay to stop seeing ads are the ones who are most hostile, and therefore least susceptible, to online advertising. I've been online since the early 90s and I could probably count on one hand the number of times I've intentionally clicked on an ad.
- playingalong 4y agoStill, I guess you are not that certain how many times an ad has affected your subconscious and triggered some change in your commercial decisions later on. The whole brand awareness, etc.
- blehn 4y agoYouTube made 28bn in ad revenue and probably somewhere in the range of 5-10bn (and growing) in ad-free subscription revenue last year, so it's clearly a viable model even if what you say is partially true. That said, I'd argue that YouTube's content is far more valuable than Meta's, and its ads are far more intrusive, so the incentive to pay is much higher.
- newaccount74 4y agoI don't have an Instagram account, so please excuse my ignorance, but I was under the assumption that a lot of content on Instagram is "sponsored content" anyway? So you're looking at ads anyway?
- ceejayoz 4y agoDepends how you curate your feed.
- Schiphol 4y agoIs there a way to curate away those sponsored posts?
- lancesells 4y agoDon't follow people with more than 5000 followers.
- ceejayoz 4y agoSure. Unfollow when you see one.
- schrodinger 4y agoI definitely see posts from accounts I’m not following.
- caskstrength 4y agoAre you from 2012 or something? Instagram has been showing promoted posts from accounts I'm not following for ages.
- ceejayoz 4y agoThose are just ads. The posts up thread making a distinction between ads and sponsored content I take to mean influencers shilling company products/services directly in posts outside of the Facebook ad network.
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