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Do your experiments, search for the most random thing, and it will show up in Insta

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Instagram/Meta is the problem here; if you are concerned about privacy and the effect of Instagram/Meta in your life, the solution is not to alienate services that (you think) work with Meta, but rather, to just cut Meta out.

Apple works with Google: Google pays Apple billions to be the default search. I still use an iPhone because it's more private than a (stock) Android phone. Yes, Apple has business dealings with Google, who I want to avoid, but I can make them concern me less by changing my default search to (and, disclaimer of bias here) DuckDuckGo. (To clarify, an Android phone can be more private than an iPhone if you use certain custom firmware, such as GrapheneOS, but you still have to throw money at Google to do so as they only provide their CFW for Google Pixel phones, though they are rumoured to be working with another hardware manufacturer to cut Google out entirely โ€” I am very interested in what they will be offering.)