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The Strange Brands in Your Instagram Feed

22 points| kposehn | 8 years ago |theatlantic.com | reply

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[+] seangrant|8 years ago|reply
I'm an Instagram user that genuinely enjoys clicking on a lot of ads - to buy dumb cheap stuff. Pins, clothing, general apparel gets sent to me and it's exceedingly obvious when the quality of the ads start to degrade and soon enough my feed is full of new no-name companies. They front like an established brand having only 4 products all with the same design, all with ridiculous markups.

I would love vetted ads with established companies. I really understood the longing for walking through a mall. No tricks, just here's a cool thing of mine (a serious business) please buy it.