Hot take: Instagram is worse than TikTok in terms of data collection.

I’ve had the following experience like 4 times:

I don’t use Instagram except to dm my brother on occasion.

I go to some restaurant or coffee shop regularly, and I find a woman working there attractive.

Instagram recommends their profile to me.

This has only ever happened on Instagram. Never on TikTok. This has happened on my degoogled pixel with location permission denied to insta, and on my iPhone.

How the fuck do they know who I have a crush on? It always puts their pages at the front of the suggested section.