Instagram Confirms Testing Unskippable Ads for Some Users: Report

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Instagram Confirms Testing Unskippable Ads for Some Users: Report

www.gadgets360.com

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Enshittification@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

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As per the report, the unskippable ads are labelled ‘Ad break’ and last for five seconds.

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