Pinterest

I absolutely adore Pinterest for all of the great content it has given me over the years. The app itself works great. However, it has become so overrun with sponsored ads (I’m talking like 50-60% of the content on my feed) that it is becoming unusable. I understand they are a company with a free app and need ads to make money, but the amount of ads to content is ridiculous recently and makes me want to give up my account.

Every other post, if not more, is a sponsored advertisement. It makes it hard to engage with anything.

Yeah. Now this review is tacking on the browser along with any IOS devices. Figures that now “notes to self” is gone on both. Mad to say I’m not surprised. Will keep writing these one star reviews until Pinterest brings this feature back. I’m LIVID they even got rid of it in the first place. Absolutely horrible decision whoever decided this was a good idea. I’m begging you. Please. Bring back notes to self. Too many of my best writing idea notes are attached to my saved pins. Can’t believe I ever entrusted them to Pinterest only to have them wiped away. This is INFURIATING!!!! 😡😡😡

While I love the concept so so sooo much, most of Pinterest is just ads now. It’s over half the feed!

This used to be my go to app, but now I can’t figure out how to access links from pins to visit recipes. I’m an old lady and have been a user of this app since it was released. I’m angry and frustrated with this!!!

I have been a member since you need an invitation to join. Recently my pins started getting flagged and removed for being adult content when that couldn’t have been further from the truth. I complained and they banned me. I keep trying to contact them and they wont answer. Now I’ve lost decades of resources.

I LOVE PINTEREST BUT PLEASE BRING BACK THE YOUTUBE SHORTS VIDEOS

The use of AI has single handedly destroyed the app I once loved, it hurts to rate it one star but I simply can’t keep up with this new AI moderation thing that incorrectly detects bad posts and reports YOU for saving them to a board and doesn’t even tell you why or which post it was! The AI also makes it so that if you have enough “inappropriate posts”, which can just be a picture of a cat meme, that your entire account can be deleted in the blink of an eye.

I love this app but I can’t stand whenever you leave the app and come back it automatically refreshes and I’ll end up losing post that I wanted to pin.

I love Pinterest to death and have been using it for years because it is incredibly fun to put together boards that tell stories, help me visualize, be creative, and enjoy content from others that pulls together ideas. In the last two years it has become so irritating if there was competition would immediately jump to it. The app is unusable without ad block, no matter how many times I click “not interested” 90% of the ads I receive are links to some crazy diet accompanied by visual imagery about what parts of the body could be skinnier. The kind of sleazy, bizarre ads you find on webpages and sites. In addition I’ve been receiving warnings on my account threatening to ban me because pins I’ve reposted have been flagged for nudity, or violence, or other crazy stuff. A naked arm is nudity, a picture of a sword is extreme violence, it’s completely ridiculous. A site that is often used by writers and creatives should not be overly censored in this way otherwise there’s no point in using it. It is irritating in the first place that people who didn’t create a pin, just saved it, get threatened with action. I have loved using Pinterest, but now everything good about it is spiraling down the drain and it’s not getting better soon because nobody in charge of the app cares about user experience.