Has anyone noticed a huge influx of ads when using Instagram? Admittedly I'm an infrequent user but as I use Facebook less I find that time being spent on IG.
One technique that has worked for me to reduce the number of ads I see is to report every single one as "I find this offensive". Do that enough times and you won't see an ad for a long time.
Instagram is awesome. I wish Facebook did not own them and Instagram stayed independent like Snapchat.
I used to love Instagram, but since I tried to register an account for a new business (which it blocked before I could even sign in, thus consigning the username into oblivion) I haven't been able to log back into my personal account. It keeps sending me through a verify phase because of suspicious activity on my account. This leads to my successfully verifying, and then ending up at a 500 server error page, or a bad request 400 error page.[0] Attempts to search for this on the Instagram help page.. oh my gosh, I get as far as typing two characters into the search box and it locks me out saying I'm too fast. [1] (the search box is search as you type.) I try and report that as an error using an included link on that page, and low and behold that page is also having problems. [2]
It's a bit of a cluster... in my experience.
I really want to get back into my Instagram account!
I'm missing out getting advertised too, and I'm missing out advertising to others, it's pretty much a double whammy!
P.S. I'd love to prove I'm not a dirty spammer and get into the new business account too, but all attempts to fill out that form with the relevant evidence on Facebook/Instagram has been ignored.
[0] http://imgur.com/UMp6TTV [1] http://imgur.com/bbQtPPL [2] http://imgur.com/BTgNLAY
Instagram has a real ad quality problem. I routinely get ads like "99 percent off Yeezy's!!!!!" This links to clear scam websites.
Whenever you create an ad on FB, it is also placed on Instagram by default. I wonder how many out of that 1M were people who didn't disable the default.
Has anyone else had the experience of seeing almost zero ads on Instagram since they introduced them? I can count the number I've seen on one hand. I marked the first couple, right after they launched them, as not relevant (they weren't) and since then I think I've seen two, one in the feed and one in their Stories feature.
There's actually an interesting comment on the article itself:
> Kind of misleading...when you start advertising on Facebook it automatically opts you in to advertising on Instagram.
I don't know if this is true or not but that could certainly explain how their advertiser numbers ballooned like that.
It's funny because when you want to buy ads on facebook, you spend something like 80% of budget on facebook and the remaining 20% on instagram by default
Instagram was cool, now it's going downhill in my opinion due to many spam accounts. Here is my highly opinionated piece on it:
https://medium.com/@AndyStannard/an-open-letter-to-instagram...
The advertisements on IG are pretty good. I find that I want to buy about 40% of the products they advertise to me. That's as good as I've seen in 20 years of web browsing.
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Instagram has become my favourite platform. Every time I log into Facebook all I see is a wall of poor quality shared posts ranging from random truck videos to fake news.
The relative quiet on Instagram, knowing I'm going to be getting only photos is serene.