Comment on Most of My Instagram Ads Are for Drugs, Stolen Credit Cards, Hacked Accounts, Counterfeit Money, and Weapons

AbsolutelyNotCats@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Chozo@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  How does that do anything for the problem the author writes about, though? They're not complaining about their own feed being spammed with this stuff, they're complaining that it's so rampant in the first place and that Meta does little to nothing to prevent it.

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  • AbsolutelyNotCats@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How does that do anything for the problem the author writes about?

    Nothing, but hopefully it’s helpful for anyone that reads it

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    • Very_Bad_Janet@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      How would Revanced help with IG ads?

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      • AbsolutelyNotCats@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Of course, there are patches for many apps now. I’ll attach a screenshot:

        revanced patches for ig

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• Neato@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I tried that. Got it installed with default settings looked absolutely no different. Half my feed is suggested bullshit.

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  • AbsolutelyNotCats@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    After all, you are using Instagram… Just without promoted ads

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