Instagram is testing unskippable "Ad Breaks" lasting 3-5 seconds, disrupting user browsing experience
Instagram is testing unskippable "Ad Breaks" lasting 3-5 seconds, disrupting user browsing experience
Instagram has been testing one of its most controversial features yet: unskippable ads, and it's called Ad Breaks. Here's what we know.
If you force advertising onto me to use your service, I will block it, failing that, I will stop using your service, full stop.
I mean, with any social media that feeds you content according to a non-disclosed algorithm, can you ever be sure what you're looking at isn't an ad? (If it's not content from someone you know irl)
It's basically all ads if it's not someone you know. That's why I've never understood why people have like 1000 friends on Facebook and Instagram. I don't want anyone I don't know in person appearing on my timeline on those sites. But meta forced it upon me anyways, so I just stopped using the sites.
Instagram are ads and influencer ads.
Nothing worth looking at, i'm just there for the near porn that gets thrown on there.
I love titties man x'D
Insta-what?
I dropped all Meta products years ago and life has been so much better.
I've been considering joining Instagram just so I can follow specific celebrities.
I've never had an Instagram account. I've held out for a while.
People still use Instagram?
I haven't complained about the extra ads added to my feed, but getting uninterrupted ads would definitely reduce the amount of time I am on it, for sure.
Serious question from someone who isn't terribly technologically literate: if other websites adopt this feature, how will ad blockers adapt? For example, would they be able to fool the site into thinking that you've viewed the ad before you actually scroll down?
That's a pretty misleading thumbnail