# The Instagram ads Facebook won't show you

DevFeed: [The Instagram ads Facebook won't show you](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-instagram-ads-facebook-won-t-show-you-1857.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://signal.org/blog/the-instagram-ads-you-will-never-see/>)

Published: 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Signal Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/signal-blog.md>)

Topics: [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [Instagram](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/instagram.md>), [Internet](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/internet.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>)

Tags: [ads](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ads.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [facebook](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/facebook.md>), [instagram](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/instagram.md>), [net-conf](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/net-conf.md>), [platform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/platform.md>), [technology](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/technology.md>), [visibility](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/visibility.md>)

## AI overview

The article describes an attempt to buy targeted Instagram ads that would show viewers personal data Facebook collects and uses for advertising. Facebook denied the ads, illustrating the article's argument that the platform sells visibility into people's lives while limiting transparency about how their data is used.

## Source excerpt

Companies like Facebook aren't building technology for you, they're building technology for your data. They collect everything they can from FB, Instagram, and WhatsApp in order to sell visibility into people and their lives. This isn't exactly a secret, but the full picture is hazy to most - dimly concealed within complex, opaquely-rendered systems and fine print designed to be scrolled past. The way most of the internet works today would be considered intolerable if translated into comprehensible real world analogs, but it endures because it is invisible. Read more...