[Instagram] Improve ad management in stories

I’ve never really posted on Reddit before… I find myself here, happy to be in a media space with fewer, albeit increasing, ad count. You go on Instagram, and the ads damn near outweigh normal posts. I began to prioritize stories, like most people, to actually show personal things and reach other humans I know in real life. Now, there is an as between EVERY story, if not 2 ads. Below is a bit of a timeline of how I remember this change happening I don’t know if it has been the same for you guys as well, but this “too far gone” ad increase happened to Snapchat too. They had a small, mostly failing explore section. However, it did have a few interesting things. When you went to view them though - unskippable 5 second ad every 15 seconds. You cannot possibly take in content that way. This Snapchat issue moved me exclusively to Insta and TikTok for random explorer page/fyp type viewing. For a while, TikTok legitimately had a good app. Ads weren’t too high (creator earned commission posts were a bit much) but the algorithm was great and the content was interesting. Eventually, the algorithm got stale for me and instagram reels got a bit better. But this brings me back to where I started. There are just too many ads on both! I can’t do it. It’s also forced upon you, I feel like on Reddit you can scroll right by, but clicking through stories on insta is too jarring. I’m looking at who posted and what the post is but I have to make sure it’s not a f%*{*^g ad every time. The sad thing is it’s making me care less about one possible good outcome of social media: connecting to people you know (death by comparison aside). Moreover, I don’t see how these companies can revert back and give up the income. Am I crazy? For longer form content, like many, I’m on YouTube. I straight up HAD TO pay for premium. It’s well documented how bad the ads are there. I just sure hope the other medias don’t start there subscription model soon lol. I hope it is the death of Social Media.