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Instagram is testing unskippable "Ad Breaks" lasting 3-5 seconds, disrupting user browsing experience (bgr.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

The rampant disease of enshittification continues

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago

Yet another reason to test uninstalling Instagram!

[–] _sideffect 15 points 6 months ago (2 children)

How much fucking money do these companies need

[–] experbia 9 points 6 months ago

all of it, then more. it's literally illegal for them to not try. shareholder primacy is a cancer on our civilization.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

all of it

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

wonderful read. ive reached a point where i can do nothing but lean back, sip a drink and laugh while these companies race each other to destroy their platforms. might as well start betting on who does the next stupid decision...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I would put $20 on Elon Musk if I actually thought it was possible for his platform to get worse

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] experbia 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

"9 consumers may be alienated for the value of the 1 with poor impulse control who remains"

literally spam economics

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

You say disrupting user browsing experience.
We say Engagement!