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Re:The Bleak Reality of the Instagram Experience by ablation on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @01:03PM (#19087783)
Instagram advertising was what finally drove me off the platform. An unstoppable tidal wave of poorly-targeted products including cheap sunglasses, bizarre "on-trend" t-shirts and other assorted crap by brands that sounded like they'd chosen their name from a random name generator. And the ads were just about every third image. Grim.
Re:The Bleak Reality of the Instagram Experience by josteink on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @01:27PM (#19088126)
> An unstoppable tidal wave of poorly-targeted products

Good targeting = tracking.

I’m happy with poor targeting, thank you very much.

Re:The Bleak Reality of the Instagram Experience by ablation on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @03:45AM (#19093673)
Sure, I understand what you're saying. It wasn't necessarily the poor targeting, simply the volume of ads that were pumped in and all such terrible quality.