I absolutely hate Instagram’s screen take over ad feature. Might be the thing that finally drives me off the platform.

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I hate instagram period. I’m more interested in your thoughts than your photos.

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If you could see that that minor temporary interruptive feature is a perfect microcosm of the entire platform and experience -- a little fractal whose every contour and angle replicates its larger scale whole -- you'd have already deleted IG and wouldn't much care. Just sayin.

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Cool bro

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I may be a lazy scroller, but it seems easy to accidentally trigger these ads to open. Happens to me every time I doom scroll. I wonder how brands’ click rates have “improved” with this feature.

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