Mastodawn

First Meta said pay or consent, and now they've taken it to a whole new level: If you want a less personalized ad experience they will force you to watch ads with 'Ad Breaks'... Could it get any worse?!

On the other hand, the annoying ad breaks could be the solution to stop the endless scrolling?! At least that's how one Redditor is interpreting the change. 😅

When did you decide to leave #META and which alternatives are you using?

Time for alternatives: https://tuta.com/blog/instagram-alternative

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Nicole Parsons 2d ago

@Tutanota

On YouTube & Instagram it gets easier & easier to just exit the application when the 1st ad appears.

The interruptions are tedious & the spyware surveillance of adtech just encourages the practice of departure.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/targeted-advertising-gives-your-location-government-just-ask-cbp

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-11/surveillance-company-turns-ad-data-into-government-tracking-tool

https://www.wired.com/story/gravy-location-data-app-leak-rtb/

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/online-behavioral-ads-fuel-surveillance-industry-heres-how

https://www.wired.com/story/how-pentagon-learned-targeted-ads-to-find-targets-and-vladimir-putin/

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/10/the-global-surveillance-free-for-all-in-mobile-ad-data/

https://netzpolitik.org/2025/databroker-files-all-you-need-to-know-about-how-adtech-data-exposes-the-eu-to-espionage/

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/30/opinion_browser/

https://theintercept.com/2022/04/22/anomaly-six-phone-tracking-zignal-surveillance-cia-nsa/

https://www.wired.com/story/google-dv360-banned-audience-segments-national-security/

https://www.404media.co/eskimi-2/

The Government Uses Targeted Advertising to Track Your Location. Here's What We Need to Do.

The online advertising industry has built a massive surveillance machine, and the government can co-opt it to spy on us.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

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lin11c

@Npars01 @Tutanota
At the moment on Instagram you can still use the FOLLOWING feed that doesn't have any ads. It's just people you follow. That's all I use and it's great.