A coworker once showed me her sister's private Instagram profile and pointed out, half-joking, "I can see her follower count but nothing else — what's the ...

A reader emailed me in January asking whether Instagram's platform updates over the past year had finally created some kind of loophole for viewing private ...

A guy in a affiliate forum I follow posted his numbers last winter after switching to whatever offer had the highest payout listed that week, three times in ...

I unfollowed an account last year that used to be one of my favorite sources for kitchen gear recommendations. Nothing dramatic happened — the content just ...

A guy I mentored last year spent his entire first month building a twelve-page comparison site before publishing a single piece of content that could actually ...

A friend running a small review blog once asked me why her affiliate dashboard showed a click but no sale, even though she watched the person on the other end ...

I talked to a new affiliate marketer last month who'd spent three weeks building a spreadsheet comparing offers across a dozen different advertisers, trying ...

Someone emailed me last month asking why a "private profile viewer" she'd found and a "public profile viewer" she'd used before seemed to do such wildly ...

I ran a small experiment last year with a handful of readers. I asked them to search "view private Instagram account" and send me screenshots of the first ...

A reader once sent me a screenshot of an ad promising full access to any private Instagram account within sixty seconds, no follow request needed, guaranteed. ...

A reader messaged me convinced she'd found a tool that could show her sister's private Instagram stories without following her. She'd paid for it. It didn't ...

I got asked recently by a small business owner whether she could see a competitor's engagement numbers without following them. She assumed the answer was ...