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Signal tried to use Instagram ads to display the data Facebook collects about you and sells access to. Facebook wasn't into the idea, and shut down our account instead: signal.org/blog/the-insta

6:49 PM · May 4, 2021Twitter Web App

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I almost want to say - "do me, do me."

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I definitely yelled that outloud. I think this is brilliant.

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You are literally my favorite. I wish we had more companies like yours.

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Signals on fire lately

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Such a cowardly move. The gratitude for the cooperation in implementing the Signal protocol in WhatsApp back in the day can be seen from miles away...

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Can't get Instagram ads if you don't have an Instagram.

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Damn, y'all on fire! First the cellebrite thing and now this :D

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Can you share a way to replicate this? Maybe if more people replicate this users could be more aware

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Try reaching out to them, it'd be interesting to see their response, like the actual reasoning of why you couldn't advertise that. Ads are disabled regularly, so let's assume it was automatically blocked a.k.a. a mistake (probably wasn't) and fight it back to see how it goes?

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I don't see you breaking any of their guidelines that's what I mean.

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