Social media without ads — and without the machinery behind them
Removing ads isn't just about a cleaner screen. Almost everything people dislike about social media exists to serve advertising: the tracking, the ranked feed, the notifications engineered to pull you back. Take the ads out and those reasons disappear with them.
What's not here
- No banner ads, no sponsored posts, no 'suggested for you' placements.
- No tracking pixels, ad SDKs or third-party analytics beacons.
- No advertising profile built from your posts, photos or messages.
- No engagement ranking deciding what you see and when.
- No data bought about you from brokers, and none sold about you either.
What you get instead
Your feed is the people you chose to follow, newest first. When you open the app there's a bottom to reach, because it's a list of your friends' posts rather than an infinite supply of strangers. Notifications are about things that actually involve you — a comment, a tag waiting for approval, a message, an event invitation.
Private by default backs it up: new accounts start friends-only, and post audience, photo visibility and friend-list visibility are separate settings you control.
What the $1 a month pays for
Servers, storage for your photos and videos, and human moderation of reports. That's the entire business model, which is what lets us say no to advertising and mean it. Everything is included in the one price — posts, photos and albums, messaging, groups, events, stories and Yard Sale.
You get 30 days free to decide, no card required to start, and you can export your data or delete your account whenever you like.
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No card required to start. After the trial it's $1 a month, and you can cancel in one click.
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