Used to love, now it’s just ads and data farming – Pinterest Review

I get that ads allow free use for apps, but this is ridiculous. I’m a long time avid Pinterest user. It was great for hobbies and design inspiration/ideas. I can now only interact with the app for a few minutes at most because I’m constantly bombarded with ads and feed topics for something I searched ONCE that I’m not interested in. I’ve tried using the “stop seeing this pin” or “stop recommending this” option and it does not work so now I go straight to DuckDuckGo to prevent altering the entire makeup of my feed. Pinterest presents the illusion of being able to tune your feed, but you don’t really have control over it. Pinterest no longer makes me feel like an avid hobbyist. It feels like they’re trying SO hard to make money off me and it interferes with my ability to use the app the way it was originally intended and the way I intended to. RIP old Pinterest, and I hope to god they don’t find a way to put ads on physical cork boards.
Review by usernamenottaken132 on Pinterest.