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My SO sends me funny clips from Instagram periodically, so blocking it entirely just means killing that part of our relationship. I don't have an Instagram account, but I do watch those clips in a container where Meta can't connect that to other websites w/ their tracking pixel (which are blocked outside the Facebook container).
I've never had an instagram account, and I can still watch videos and such that others post.
Same. But if I blocked all meta sites, I wouldn't. That's why I stick it in a Firefox multi-account container, so meta can't associate that with anything else I do online (i.e. tracking pixels on other sites). Still don't have an account, I just use it to isolate their cookies and whatnot.