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

traveler@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Echo71Niner@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  it’s astonishing

  **people ** still not blocking ads, use adblock!

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  • traveler@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If you use the app there’s no blocking it sadly. What people should start doing it’s stop using that platform all together

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    • Mr_Vortex@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I use an alternative side-loaded Instagram app called Instander which blocks ads and comes with other nice features. I don’t use the platform much anyhow, but when I do it makes the experience actually tolerable.

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No, what people should start doing is demanding that governments actually enforce the law against Facebook for acting as an accomplice to the myriad crimes the article discusses. Facebook should be dissolved and executives should go to prison.

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    • Gestrid@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      ReVanced says they support removing timeline ads from Instagram. I don’t use Instagram, so I haven’t tested it, though.

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    • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Pihole oughta do it.

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      • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        PiHole doesn’t work when ads and legitimate content are both served from same domain.

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    • Echo71Niner@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      People use the app, have their info exploited and than complain this is the only way to use a service that is exploiting your clicks, and yet, you don’t stop using it, really weird.

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  • traveler@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    People shouldn’t be forced to use a adblocker for a platform to be usable.

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    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      As opposed to when?

      At what point in internet history do you think website advertising was tolerable? Because in my eyes, it’s always been an aggressive obstacle to usability, since the dial-up era.

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      • traveler@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I mean, you either pay the service so you don’t have to watch ads (like YouTube Premium) or you see ads that aren’t criminal behaviour or spam.

        Either way, I fail to understand how people got into the mindset that every service in the internet should be both free and ad free.

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• 30mag@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If criminals are advertising the crimes they are committing, I don’t imagine law enforcement are going to be falling all over themselves to put a stop to it, because it makes their job a lot easier.

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  • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sure, assuming that their job is filling beds in prison rather than actually reducing crime.

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  • traveler@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Are law enforcement actually doing it? Because if they were people were not always making those ads.

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