I mean, with any social media that feeds you content according to a non-disclosed algorithm, can you ever be sure what you're looking at isn't an ad? (If it's not content from someone you know irl)

Insta-what?

I dropped all Meta products years ago and life has been so much better.

People still use Instagram?

I haven't complained about the extra ads added to my feed, but getting uninterrupted ads would definitely reduce the amount of time I am on it, for sure.

Serious question from someone who isn't terribly technologically literate: if other websites adopt this feature, how will ad blockers adapt? For example, would they be able to fool the site into thinking that you've viewed the ad before you actually scroll down?

That's a pretty misleading thumbnail