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Instagram Advertising: Do you know it when you see it?

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Re: Instagram Advertising: Do you know it when you see it?

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Post by elorant »

moksly wrote: post #20

I’m not on Instagram, but I don’t think this issue is really confined to social media. I’ve become quite concerned about is how advertising is drowning out useful information everywhere else as well. We recently had a baby girl, our first, and this has lead to quite a lot of internet searching. I’ve been completely unable to find anything resembling an authentic answer on google. It’s all commercial content trying to…

I've contemplated with the idea of building a plug-in that would disable all affiliate links on a page. What's holding me from doing it is that I find it unethical because some people are making a living out of promoting stuff. From the other hand, native advertising has become a scourge for modern web. It's not enough that every site has a dozen of visible ads, now we have to fight through promoted content everywhere.

Re: Instagram Advertising: Do you know it when you see it?

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Post by TeMPOraL »

_nalply wrote: post #47

About advertising in general: we know it is sort of a prisoner's dilemma. If only nobody did advertising... Only trustworthy and non-promoting information about products findable by search (pull instead of push)... It would also be a lot cheaper for the companies.

It's true. And the one good solution to prisoner's dilemma is to have an external actor that precommits to punish defectors. In real-life scenarios, this external actor is very often the government.

That's why I believe that advertising industry ultimately needs to be burned down to the ground through legal means. It'll be better off for everyone - including companies, who will be able to spend much less on the little informative advertising that would be allowed.

Re: Instagram Advertising: Do you know it when you see it?

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Post by puranjay »

antpls wrote: post #24
puranjay wrote: post #6

Slightly OT, but I deleted my Facebook last year. Ever since, the Instagram ads I see are woefully targeted. I'm a 30 year old man living in New Delhi, India, yet in the past few weeks, I've seen ads for: - A real estate company in Denver, Colarado - Sanitary pads for women - A Dubai property brokerage - BMW Las Vegas I really don't know what's going on with these ads because geographic and gender exclusion would be…

They could also target your friends. Maybe soon, one of your friends or siblings will announce you they are considering buying a BMW, and your reaction to this announcement might be better than without seeing the ad. Your reaction could confirm/trigger the final decision to buy a BMW for your friend.

In that case, Instagram knows my friends even less than it knows me. None of my extended group of friends are in any position to buy a used BMW, let alone a new one.

(BMWs, by the way, are very expensive in India. An entry level 3-series costs roughly $70,000)

Re: Instagram Advertising: Do you know it when you see it?

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Post by puranjay »

jasoncartwright wrote: post #28
puranjay wrote: post #6

Slightly OT, but I deleted my Facebook last year. Ever since, the Instagram ads I see are woefully targeted. I'm a 30 year old man living in New Delhi, India, yet in the past few weeks, I've seen ads for: - A real estate company in Denver, Colarado - Sanitary pads for women - A Dubai property brokerage - BMW Las Vegas I really don't know what's going on with these ads because geographic and gender exclusion would be…

Same here. Instagram is absolutely convinced I'm in Norway and no matter where I actually am (UK, Asia, Africa, USA) it only ever shows me ads in Norwegian... which I don't speak.

The ads in my wife's feed, who still has her Facebook account, on the other hand, are very well targeted.

This makes me think that maybe Instagram depends heavily on your Facebook data for targeting, and that deleting your Facebook (not disabling; deleting) actually does delete your data from Facebook

Re: Instagram Advertising: Do you know it when you see it?

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Post by NeedMoreTea »

moksly wrote: post #20

I’m not on Instagram, but I don’t think this issue is really confined to social media. I’ve become quite concerned about is how advertising is drowning out useful information everywhere else as well. We recently had a baby girl, our first, and this has lead to quite a lot of internet searching. I’ve been completely unable to find anything resembling an authentic answer on google. It’s all commercial content trying to…

Try https://millionshort.com

Search without the top 1m (or 100k) sites. Far from perfect, but it tunes out an awful lot of the commerce that Google prioritise. You start finding the old school forums and info sites that are mostly invisible to Google.

Re: Instagram Advertising: Do you know it when you see it?

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Post by voltagex_ »

jobigoud wrote: post #34

Oh, a website where I can decline tracking cookies and the punition is a plain text article? Yes please! I hope this practice spreads.

Only when coming via an EU IP it seems. If you want to see this - go to https://choice.npr.org/index.html?origin=https://www.npr.org...

Re: Instagram Advertising: Do you know it when you see it?

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Post by staz »

moksly wrote: post #20

I’m not on Instagram, but I don’t think this issue is really confined to social media. I’ve become quite concerned about is how advertising is drowning out useful information everywhere else as well. We recently had a baby girl, our first, and this has lead to quite a lot of internet searching. I’ve been completely unable to find anything resembling an authentic answer on google. It’s all commercial content trying to…

I think that's where all that SEO stuff has lead us, only the one with stuffs to sell do it (or pay someone to do it) and so end up on top of the rankings.

Re: Instagram Advertising: Do you know it when you see it?

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Post by pacopil »

elorant wrote: post #51
moksly wrote: post #20

I’m not on Instagram, but I don’t think this issue is really confined to social media. I’ve become quite concerned about is how advertising is drowning out useful information everywhere else as well. We recently had a baby girl, our first, and this has lead to quite a lot of internet searching. I’ve been completely unable to find anything resembling an authentic answer on google. It’s all commercial content trying to…

I've contemplated with the idea of building a plug-in that would disable all affiliate links on a page. What's holding me from doing it is that I find it unethical because some people are making a living out of promoting stuff. From the other hand, native advertising has become a scourge for modern web. It's not enough that every site has a dozen of visible ads, now we have to fight through promoted content everywher…

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