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While ads themselves aren’t exactly the most welcome inclusion, this will be a much-preferred method than intrusive banner ads.

There's no reason to believe it'll stop here.

Instagram was ad-free for quite some time. Now every third or fourth post is a big, unmissable ad. Same thing in stories.

Instagram was ad-free for quite some time. Now every third or fourth post is a big, unmissable ad. Same thing in stories.

Stopped using Instagram because even the "organic" posts are ads or product placement of some sort. It seems like every time someone hits 10k subs or more, their content becomes >50% ads.

I follow primarily friends, family, and a few hobbyists in my chosen hobbies (model trains, space/rockets, etc.). It's been no trouble to curate - more than one "sponsored" post probably means I unfollow you, as do memes. The end result (barring their ads) is a really nice feed of pictures that are either cool or interesting to me personally.

Family and Friends post boring stuff for the most part. I was on Instagram for other things like photography, interior design and memes. The first 2 categories will obviously have "sponsor content", but when meme pages started shilling products, it was over for me.

Use the web version. No ads. Use the app only when you need to post.

Unpopular opinion here: Instagram ads are unobtrusive and easy to skip quickly.

Being unwilling to pay for a platform and simultaneously being unwilling to be shown any advertisements is unsustainable.

In the US, Facebook's revenue is $25 per user per quarter. That's $100 a year. Are you willing to pay the same or more than that just for access to their products?

YouTube Premium actually is a great example of how much that pricing ends up being: $11.99 a month.

Your brain has seen them already, that is enough.. I don't want to pollute my mind if I can choose, ads are already omnipresent.

I'm perfectly willing to pay for Instagram, they just don't give me the option.

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