Pinterest

Pinterest has turned into a nightmare. The "promoted" and "picked for you" pins are obscenely ridiculous. My friends and I have emailed them numerous times complaining about these pins and our concerns are never addressed. What's the point of Pinterest if someone else is going to pick the pins that you see, it totally defeats the purpose. I want to decide what I want to see in my feed, not have it picked for me. The last straw was when I got on the website and there was over 100 "promoted" and "picked for you" pins. I'm not kidding, over 100. I couldn't see any thing I or my friends had pinned. I ended up deleting my account. It's not worth the hassle.

Someone decided to insert ads throughout the idea pictures. Annoying, greedy, and distracting to the viewer developing ideas. On top of this, the movement of the inserted videos of ads makes things even worse.

The arrangement of ads is visually sneaky and insidious in that you have to keep stopping visually, more and more to see if the item is actually related to what your are looking for or an ad.

And... had to go here because I couldn't find a place to leave feedback on the Pinterest website.

Pinterest seems to condone pornography. Which I find offensive as I don't want to see full frontal pics of men or women. Yet, when I pin clothes, shoes, handbags, etc., and put the website and price where they can purchase them if interested, I am accused of being a spammer. That is not my intent. If I want to purchase something I see on a pin, I find it helpful but it's not permitted. Yet, if I want to find tons of pics of naked men and women, that is fine. I'm off of Pinterest. It's a piece of crap where people message you whether you like it or not. It was a good idea that has gone out of hand.

When I first started using Pinterest 2 years ago it was a dream. Now it's just about a nightmare. There are so many glitches to try and deal with. I'm having problems with: pin screen being black, reply sometimes makes it to the person, sometimes not, when I get to the screen that comes up to reply their name is in black lettering at the top. To the left side it's in blue. For my reply to HOPEFULLY go to the person I have to erase the blue name while the screen jumps up and down.

Unable to submit query/complaint about unsolicited marketing material showing on my account despite not following this soft porn area. Every attempt to submit a query to not receive this offensive material is blocked - endless questions which require you to revert for information forcing you out of the site and having to restart the process - screen freezing - andd finally unable to submit at all. Perhaps they are sensitive and just don't like complaints!
So I am pinning my complaint on my board: #disappointed
Also tried delivering this review on customer service website - which also inexplicably freezes. Cannot recommend Pinterest.

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Pinterest used to be a delight. I have two accounts on Pinterest for different reasons. When I am working on one account all of my boards appear just as I wish. When I access my other account from the account I'm working on, I see that on every board all kinds of ads that have been inserted (by?) among the pins I have chosen, completely destroying the whole effect. You would never notice this unless you access your account from another Pinterest account, say, a friend's account. Try it.

So I occasionally looked at baking stuff, etc, along those lines, my daughter used it frequently, she liked saving pins of clothes she thought pretty. Nothing was ever uploaded, nothing ever made public, every category was locked. And yet they kicked me and my daughter off for doing nothing wrong. That so called company hacks your account and makes up whatever justifies their intrusion into your life. They did this twice, I am now an advocate against companies like pin$#*!.

I have tried several times to look at exterior entry doors, and sadly they are all linked to a Pinterest site. I do not want to set up a Pinterest account, and while it appears to allow me to use my Facebook account, it wont let me to the page. So I am boycotting any vendor that wont allow me to view their product without setting up a Pinterest account. We are starting a $200,000 home remodel, so sorry for the short sightedness of those vendors.

You are right. I saved things that I would go back to and it was work created. I would also have like for them to send me a notice as a courtesy to say you need to make some changes, and I would have. It makes no sense to me for us to put in all that work and they know it also. It would not take a moment no more then it does to send a email stating we have removed your account because of. That could have been we will remove if you don't. Give a time and as I know I would have made those changes. They clearly say no sex content and I had a follower who did that to me. That page is still there. Doug I know how you feel. I don't click on anything that says Pinterest.

The amount of ads I see is becoming way too excessive. There's almost as many ads as there are pins at this point. No joke, I just opened Pinterest, and there's at least eight ads at the top, no pins, just ads. Along with this, there's an issue with my boards where some sections will become stuck in some places. This has happened with at least three of my boards, as well as any new ones I make. It's been over a year I've had this issue, and it still hasn't been fixed.

Did a review of Pinterest in Dec. After attempting to get some satisfaction for a purchase. Submitted all the information I had for the vendor. Paupoo is still advertising the same item on different websites on Pinterest. I informed Pinterest & they've done nothing. The item is completely fraudulent, I even sent pictures of this "handmade dragon". No one seems to care, it's ridiculous, shameful & pitiful. I know I'll never see a refund for this dragon. This type of situation is inexcusable. I am handicapped, on a fixed income, I depend on being able to purchase many items online. How does a person find websites that aren't cheats, liars, employee exploiters, or expensive?

Pinterest SHOVES a lot ff their "promoted" and "picked for you" pins in your feed. By doing this, its really the visual equivalent of making you look at everything in your junk mail folder.

It wasn't always like this. YOU could decide what you wanted to see. I get that Pinterest needed to be able to monetize their site. However, the way they are going about it is just a turn off. I would have rather paid an annual fee. Now, I just go to the site a lot less.

It used to be possible to see full sized pins from boards in sequence without returning to the thumbnails.
The arrows that allow this are now gone, and it is impossible to see pins slideshow style anymore, help center says this was done deliberately as an "experiment"

WHY?

What use are image boards that don't let you look at the images?

It's destroyed my ability to use and enjoy this site and no one can tell me why they would make a crazy change like this.