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Stefen Auris @pawb.social

1y ago

Instagram is testing unskippable "Ad Breaks" lasting 3-5 seconds, disrupting user browsing experience

Unskippable ads may soon make Instagram a nightmare just like YouTube

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16139296

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Blaze @reddthat.com

1y ago

Instagram is testing unskippable "Ad Breaks" lasting 3-5 seconds, disrupting user browsing experience

bgr.com /tech/unskippable-ads-may-soon-make-instagram-a-nightmare-just-like-youtube/

4 comments

How much fucking money do these companies need
- all of it, then more. it's literally illegal for them to not try. shareholder primacy is a cancer on our civilization.
at what point will advertising become a liability? I can understand a platform's motives to ruin your experience to shove more ads in your face, but what companies are thinking it's a good thing to piss off your potential customers to the degree its happening in the non ad blocked world? why pay for something that actively tries to antagonise your customers?
- for every 9 who leave, 1 will make them at least 10x the money by watching and clicking ads. but yet they'll have to pay fewer server and bandwidth and hosting costs. more profit. line goes up. shareholders appeased, as legally mandated.
  welcome to the whale economy. 9 consumers may be alienated for the value of the 1 with poor impulse control who remains. it is happening to all goods and services, slowly.
  If they know someone will buy it anyway for some reason (more money than sense, poor impulse control, etc.) why should McDonald's sell 10 burgers at 1 dollar each when it could sell 1 burger at 10 dollars? same revenue, 10% of the labor and material costs.