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Instagram confirms test of 'unskippable' ads
- dangerboysteve 2y agoAnd the steady march of enshittification continues for Meta products.
- xuhu 2y agoMuch easier to block or mute and look away than the other format ("and before we contine, I want to tell you about Squarespace, which is a great way to ...").
- kjkjadksj 2y agoJust wait until apple lets them at the eyeball position in faceid
- cglan 2y agoWe got so much for "free" during low interest rates, now we're finding out what all the nice tech stuff really costs. We're gonna see most tech products get enshittified, especially ones with high switching costs
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 2y agoI think it's a good thing. A lot of no-value-add nonsense has been created for no good reason other than cheap money.
- Enginerrrd 2y agoThing is, instagram can derive plenty of healthy profit without this. This is just about trying to drive additional growth for shareholders to justify the inflated PE ratios that came about from low interest rates.
- Enginerrrd 2y agoThis a great move. I will instantly uninstall Instagram the first time this happens to me and not come back like I did with YouTube. I'll get more useful stuff done and have higher quality down time.
- nkozyra 2y agoWhen Youtube was in the midst of screwing with adblockers any way possible I used the platform basically not at all. I also applaud more apps going around ad avoidances as their primary mode of monetization.
- poszlem 2y agoAnother example illustrating how ads are like an invasive, malignant cancer that spreads relentlessly. You can try to remove it from one platform, but it always seems to return. Isn't it ironic how we abandoned television to escape unskippable commercials, only to find them now on so many online platforms?
- add-sub-mul-div 2y agoCommercials on TV haven't been unskippable since the first DVR came out in 1999.
- account42 2y agoIt boggles my mind that there are still people that put up with online advertising.
- bananapub 2y agowhat do you mean? Meta have made the Instagram web experience terrible so that they can get people to use their app, which many people do because sharing photos with your friends is enjoyable. it is appalling that they have just completely wrecked it, though, like everything else they - and other big companies that have set expectations of billions of dollars profit a quarter - touch.
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- dopylitty 2y agoRelated: https://www.404media.co/why-do-these-instagram-electricians-want-to-deep-throat-you/ https://www.404media.co/why-do-these-instagram-electricians-...
- jmclnx 2y agoDoes the content creator get a cut of the revenue ? If no I think they should move elsewhere.
- xnx 2y agoAs the ad-enshittification ratchets up, old-school adblockers will need to transform into proactive agents for the user: Login to the app on my behalf. Scroll through all content since last run. Save that content into an ad-free format/archive that I can scroll through at the time and manner I choose.
- poisonborz 2y agoI haven't seen an (explicit) ad on Instagram in years, and I use both web and mobile. DNS/PiHole, on Android there are customized clients as well. I always wonder about comments here on these topics, I guessed more of the HN crowd knows the way around these things. Maybe there will be a point where these methods will be rendered useless, and then rage would be more justified, but that point is not yet here.
- squigz 2y agoI believe rage is warranted when these platforms do everything they can to get around workarounds like adblockers - and that says nothing of the fact that such technical solutions shouldn't even be necessary to begin with.
- slayerjain 2y agoGuess I'll go confirm my test of "deletable" apps.
- slayerjain 2y agoInstagram used to be great to avoid all of the BS posts and ads from FB. Now it’s just an endless scroll or reels and I don’t even see anything from the real people I’m friends with.
- jpl56 2y agoUse the "followed" tab, not "for me". Same as Youtube actually ("Subscribed" tab).