Instagram Has Become SkyMall

Re:Instagram Has Become SkyMall by Kiro on Saturday July 10, 2021 @08:56PM (#27797658)

I want to buy every single thing I see here. I've been really happy with the kind of ads I've been seeing lately. Instead of generic commercials I'm getting very specific products solving problems I have but didn't realize could be solved by a gadget.

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Re:Instagram Has Become SkyMall by swatkat on Saturday July 10, 2021 @09:28PM (#27797790)

This reads like a subliminal message from John Carpenter’s “They Live”. I hope it’s sarcasm :)

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Re:Instagram Has Become SkyMall by perardi on Saturday July 10, 2021 @09:38PM (#27797830)

Eh. There are a lot of ads. A lot of it is nonsense.

But: there are some diamonds in the rough. Do I really need another novelty tank top? No. Would I rather have an ad for a novelty tank top versus going back to the TV days and getting an ad for vitamins for senior citizens? No—give me my targeted ads, versus ads for drugs for old people.

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Re:Instagram Has Become SkyMall by unethical_ban on Saturday July 10, 2021 @10:22PM (#27798031)

I found a t-shirt brand that actually has well fitting, nicely colored, comfortable shirts. They shrink in my dryer so I have to hang-dry, but I have been buying some things I find on there.

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Re:Instagram Has Become SkyMall by dylan604 on Saturday July 10, 2021 @09:33PM (#27797812)

If you can't beat them, join them? I for one, welcome our benevolent advertising overloards. /s

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Re:Instagram Has Become SkyMall by MattGaiser on Saturday July 10, 2021 @09:25PM (#27797776)

I turned off my adblocker for Facebook as the ads started being far more relevant to me.

Lots of interesting games or hackathons or nifty tools.

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Re:Instagram Has Become SkyMall by aikinai on Saturday July 10, 2021 @10:24PM (#27798039)

I almost never check Facebook and when I do, I only login in a private tab, but even from this sandbox, Facebook somehow has the best ads for me by far.

I actually get very little value from the normal content, but I’d probably even sign up for a newsletter of their ads for me.

Edit: They always seem to have very cool Kickstarters for me, for example, so then later I’ll try to go right to the source, but I’ve never found something good myself on Kickstarter.

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Re:Instagram Has Become SkyMall by post_break on Saturday July 10, 2021 @09:48PM (#27797880)

I'm in the same boat. Normally I despise ads, but the ones on facebook I'm seeing I have actually clicked on to learn more. Not a robot, hate facebook to the core, but some of the ads I get are interesting.

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Re:Instagram Has Become SkyMall by 6f8986c3 on Saturday July 10, 2021 @09:37PM (#27797827)

I use Brave and love my ad-free life.

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Re:Instagram Has Become SkyMall by kaszanka on Saturday July 10, 2021 @09:39PM (#27797838)

Facebook seems to put a lot of effort into making ads hard to block too.

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