Instagram Stories Hits 150M Active Users, Adds Advertising To Instagram Stories (techcrunch.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Instagram Stories now has as many users as the last number announced by Snapchat, the app Instagram copied. And it's swiftly moving to monetize that massive audience. Along with the new 150 million daily user stat, Instagram today announced the launch of ads mixed into Stories. The unclickable 5-second photo and 15-second video ads appear between different people's stories and can be easily skipped. Instagram will also provide business accounts with analytics on the reach, impressions, replies and exits of their Stories.

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Prediction

[Anonymous Coward]

I predict that people will whine tremendously about Instagram's ads while tolerating all of the ads and trackers on Slashdot. Why does Slashdot get a free pass with you people, when you whine about Facebook and Instagram?

Re:Prediction

[thomn8r]

Hold up - slashdot has ads? WTF?

Re:Prediction

[DivineKnight]

Seriously. Anyone who has attained 'Contributor' (made a half-dozen comments that were on topic in the last month? IDK) status gets a nice checkbox to turn them off; but then, if you only ever post AC, you wouldn't know that, would you?

Re:Prediction

[Anonymous Coward]

It's not offensive to me to have a 5 or 15 second ad that can be skipped. I realize they have to make money too.

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[Anonymous Coward]

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Re: Best adblocker (+ more 4 speed & security)

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re: Best adblocker (+ more 4 speed & security)

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re: Best adblocker (+ more 4 speed & security)

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:Best adblocker (+ more 4 speed & security)

[LinuxIsGarbage]

APK,

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Re:Best adblocker (+ more 4 speed & security)

[Anonymous Coward]

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Slashdot has ads? I had never noticed...

[Anonymous Coward]

Because I block them all!

Only 4 types give me guff (I'm on topic)

[Anonymous Coward]

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APK

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Re: Only 4 types give me guff (I'm on topic)

[Anonymous Coward]

You seem to have misunderstood my post. Again, I'd like to configure a custom HOSTS file to block all advertising, including the spam you routinely post here. You are clearly an expert on HOSTS files, so I'm soliciting your help to configure a HOSTS file to block your spam advertising posts. I look forward to your answer, at your earliest convenience.

Re: Only 4 types give me guff (I'm on topic)

[Anonymous Coward]

You're clearly a limited unskilled imbecile that can't create something to do it trolling apk as you're jealous of apk's skills doing adblocking, security, reliability, and anonymity that uses what you already have natively instead of stupidly adding on more that does less but uses more.

Re: Only 4 types give me guff (I'm on topic)

[Anonymous Coward]

That's one hell of a run-on sentence, APK. Your English teachers would be very disappointed.

Re: Only 4 types give me guff (I'm on topic)

[Anonymous Coward]

Whoever posted it nailed you to a tee troll. It made me laugh at your puny flailings against the unstoppable apk as he blows you down like always.

Re: Only 4 types give me guff (I'm on topic)

[Anonymous Coward]

Whoever posted it nailed you to a tee troll. It made me laugh at your puny flailings against the unstoppable apk as he goes down and blows you like always.

Re: Only 4 types give me guff (I'm on topic)

[Anonymous Coward]

Laughing my ass off at you after these facts about you https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10106853&cid=53648685/

Yay!! More advertising!

[JustAnotherOldGuy]

Yay!! More advertising! Just what I always wanted, thank you Instagram!

Re: Yay!! More advertising!

[Anonymous Coward]

I really haven't found the ads on Instagram to be particularly intrusive or annoying. My primary concerns with their ads are the amount of tracking they do to target the advertisements. Even using the app, I haven't found the advertising to be that bad. It's actually logical that they would try to monetize new features, so I'm not bothered by this. If anything, Facebook needs to be shamed for their tracking and awful privacy policy, not the amount of ads across their platforms.

Re:Yay!! More advertising!

[Anonymous Coward]

Just what I always wanted ...

Well, you've got 2 choices:
    A) Demanding Instagram charge a monthly fee for no-adverts accounts,
    B) Running your own photo-sharing web-site and paying the costs for all your subscribers.

Re:Yay!! More advertising!

[Gr8Apes]

Well, you've got 2 choices: A) Demanding Instagram charge a monthly fee for no-adverts accounts, B) Running your own photo-sharing web-site and paying the costs for all your subscribers.

Or C) Run you own photo sharing web site and be done with it. There's no costs, and no real connectivity issues considering most people will see little more than a few tens of connections at most downloading pics, unless you get a viral hit. Even then, upload speeds are so pathetic, the "correct" way of sharing would be republishing those pics, and life would get a lot better for everyone except the centralized services.

Re:Yay!! More advertising!

[JustAnotherOldGuy]

Or C) Run you own photo sharing web site and be done with it.

And that's exactly what I do...I have a nice gallery script set up on one of my domains and if people want to see my pics (or share some of their own) then they can go there. No muss, no fuss, no ads, and no spammers crapping all over the site either.

No creepers talking shit or stalking anyone, no lamers uploading pics of this morning's breakfast bagel, and no corporate entities telling me what to buy.

Until InstaCramp can give me that experience, I have no interest in their service.

Re: Yay!! More advertising!

[Anonymous Coward]

I really haven't found the ads on Instagram to be particularly intrusive or annoying.

So you work in marketing? (spit)

Instagram is Facebook. Avoid Facebook.

[Futurepower(R)]

One of the stories: Facebook just ruined Instagram. (2016-08-06)

It amazes me that Facebook and Google and Microsoft and Adobe Systems believe they can use most people's ignorance of technology to abuse customers.

Another story: "The sale of Instagram to Facebook for a cool billion in the spring of 2012 was the ultimate Silicon Valley fairy tale: 18 months from launch to offer.".

Another quote: "The offer was even more impressive given Instagram's size and age. At the time, it had just 13 employees, operating out of a cramped space in the South Park section of San Francisco."

And the cattle go.....

[Anonymous Coward]

Moooooooooooooooooo..........

Ublock/adblock rules...

[Anonymous Coward]

Does anyone have a solution for the "sponsored ads" showing in/as the main page stories? On Ublock Origin, using wildcards to block them don't seem to work. If I can't find a solution, it's going to be bye bye /. I don't want to see ads, and if they're forced it's not worth my time going to those sites anymore.

Re:Ublock/adblock rules...

[Anonymous Coward]

Put this in your userstyle for Slashdot:

*[class*=" ntv-sponsored"] { display:none!important; }

I use Stylish for Firefox. I'm sure there are other choices that achieve similar and probably in other browsers too.

snapchat is myspace

[turkeydance]

instagram is facebook

Depends on proxy used... apk

[Anonymous Coward]

See subject: Privoxy, iirc, runs w/ hosts perfectly (others that don't = bad news imo (spy system)).

APK

P.S.=> Of course, putting hosts ON the proxy server system itself SHOULD theoretically @ least correct YOUR problem described above too... apk

Joke

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