Business Instagram reportedly showing 3 to 5 seconds of unskippable ‘Ad Breaks’ for some users - all the news sites covering this are indian

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Instagram, the Meta-owned social media platform, is testing a new feature that will show ‘unskippable’ ads when users are scrolling through their feeds. Dubbed ‘Ad Breaks’, Meta seems to be currently rolling out the experimental change to a small group of users.

While the company hasn’t officially said anything about ‘Ad Breaks’, it looks like the social media platform is forcing some users to watch three to five seconds of unskippable ads before they can resume scrolling.

When one user clicked on the ‘i’ button to see what Ad Breaks does, the official description says, “Ad breaks are a new way of seeing ads on Instagram. Sometimes you may need to view an ad before you can keep browsing.” Unsurprisingly, the new functionality seems to be causing frustration among users, with many saying they will stop using Instagram if the platform decides to stick with the changes.
It looks like Meta is testing the water and gauging user feedback before it rolls out the functionality to everyone. YouTube also shows unskippable ads on the free tier, with some ads lasting up to a minute. While those ads can be easily disabled by purchasing YouTube Premium, it is still unclear if Meta will roll out an ad-free subscription if it rolls out unskippable ads to everyone.

Last month, Instagram introduced ‘Add Yours Music’ and ‘Reveal’ stickers and a new feature called ‘Frames’, and said it is making Notes more interactive by adding support for likes, mentions, and prompts.

 

[vomitusdeux]

I've never used instagram and now I never will.

 

[Mr. Racewar1488]

YouTube also shows unskippable ads on the free tier, with some ads lasting up to a minute.

*Laughs in UBlockOrigin* I haven't seen an ad on YouTube in over a decade. Google tried to stop us but every tweak to the API they tried was countered in an hour of less. Stay winning, ad-blocker Chads!

 

[SpotOnTheWall]

What world does Zuck live in where forcing unskippable ads down consumers' throats make them enjoy the app and consoom product, not make them ditch the app?
Hopefully this makes Instagram die that much faster.

 

[User names must be unique]

I sincerely don't understand the point of instagram, seems like a retarded site for faggots and niggers.

 

[Safir]

I sincerely don't understand the point of instagram, seems like a retarded site for faggots and niggers.

"well duh"

Instagram is horrifically ugly. Sometimes I think, if I were a sleb making big bux, I'd stay away from Instagram because it looks dirty and infected like an unwashed tattooed pooner, and poasting my hypothetical content or products on there would be damaging to "the brand".

But then, who cares about slebs? Retards. Maybe zuck knows better, maybe dirty and infected is how slebs make money.

 

[Otterly]

I sincerely don't understand the point of instagram, seems like a retarded site for faggots and niggers.

If you’re very careful and only ever like very small benign accounts like Tracy from down the road and her allotment, or random Lithuanian grannies who knit, you can make it workable. You have to have an intense period of complaining every few months when the algo decides you need to be looking at consuming, or gay stuff, or politics.
Every single ad or account they shove at you that you hate you need to report as unwanted, offensive or illegal (like pharma ads being shown in the uk.) They will leave you alone for a few months and you can go back to nice posts like exactly how Tracey keeps the slugs off her cabbages, or how Brian deals with cabbage white butterflies or Svetlana deals with the holes at the join of the sleeve.
Your ads will be random stuff if you’re careful and use no other meta products (for a while I was getting fancy horse products and private submarines* so I think they’re not very good at profiling.)
*I do not and nor have I ever owned a private submarine.
It’s about the only social I can deal with, because all it shows me is people’s gardens, and needlework.

 

[User names must be unique]

If you’re very careful and only ever like very small benign accounts like Tracy from down the road and her allotment, or random Lithuanian grannies who knit, you can make it workable. You have to have an intense period of complaining every few months when the algo decides you need to be looking at consuming, or gay stuff, or politics.

bit it's still just an image sharing site that has facebergs attitude to what images should be shared. Seems like a shitter twitter if such a thing is possible.

 

[Otterly]

bit it's still just an image sharing site that has facebergs attitude to what images should be shared. Seems like a shitter twitter if such a thing is possible.

Yeah it’s nothing indispensable. I find it useful for boots on the ground knowledge of gardening under local conditions and obscure hobby stuff. For that it’s fine.
If it starts making me watch ads I’d shrug and never use it again, but as SM goes if you’re careful with it it can be Ok.

 

[Mac Monster]

I can't imagine how anyone could browse the internet today without an adblocker. Almost every website wants to bombard you with tons of ads for shit you don't want or need.

 

[Osama Bin Laden]

I can't imagine how anyone could browse the internet today without an adblocker. Almost every website wants to bombard you with tons of ads for shit you don't want or need.

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[User names must be unique]

Yeah it’s nothing indispensable. I find it useful for boots on the ground knowledge of gardening under local conditions and obscure hobby stuff. For that it’s fine.
If it starts making me watch ads I’d shrug and never use it again, but as SM goes if you’re careful with it it can be Ok.

I 'recovered' a disposable account I had made to look at a lolcow, for some reason it had been taken over by an Egyptian child. I checked local content 2/3rds of the posts tagged as ("my town") are just some fat broad in yoga pants the other 1/3 is an over priced cafe.

Perhaps it's just my location but twitter is infinitely better

I messaged what looked to be the Egyptian child's school friend with the new password, I feel bad for taking the account away from him just to see how shit Instagram is.

 

[Ebonic Tutor]

I 'recovered' a disposable account I had made to look at a lolcow, for some reason it had been taken over by an Egyptian child. I checked local content 2/3rds of the posts tagged as ("my town") are just some fat broad in yoga pants the other 1/3 is an over priced cafe.

Perhaps it's just my location but twitter is infinitely better

I messaged what looked to be the Egyptian child's school friend with the new password, I feel bad for taking the account away from him just to see how shit Instagram is.

It's not actually an Egyptian child's account most likely, probably some pajeet using it to run scams while pretending to be an Egyptian child.

 

[User names must be unique]

It's not actually an Egyptian child's account most likely, probably some pajeet using it to run scams while pretending to be an Egyptian child.

Nah he has messages to friends about class and arraigning fortnite gaming sessions. none of the accounts it's following look to be botted either.

I'm more fascinated than worried, it was a junk account on junk email address with a junk password.