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Will Hayward

How to find all the bizarre topics Instagram thinks you want to see adverts for

There is a way to find out what Instagram is telling advertisers what your interests are. The Facebook-owned social media giant makes serious money from showing you adverts from companies it thinks you will be interested in.

In order to target these adverts it makes predictions on what it thinks you will want to see. There is a way to find out what Insta sees your interests as and the results can be quite bizarre.

Journalist Josiah Mortimer posted the list of his interests (according to Instagram) and they bizarrely included "equinox fitness", "drinking water", and "weather".

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