Editorial Policy

Our Mission

yzoms exists to publish accurate, tested, and honest information about private Instagram viewers, monitoring software, and Instagram privacy — a niche where the existing information supply is dominated by affiliate marketing and deliberate misinformation. Our job is to be the source that tells you what is true, including when the truth is "this entire product category cannot work."

How We Research and Test

Every claim on this site passes through at least one of three channels:

• Hands-on testing. Monitoring software is installed and operated on devices we own, with test accounts we control. Viewer websites are walked end-to-end — including their verification funnels, payment pages, and failure states — with the risks documented from the visitor's side.
• Technical analysis. Claims about platform capabilities are evaluated against how the systems actually operate: what Instagram's servers send to authorized versus unauthorized requesters, what permissions mobile OSes actually grant, and what any third-party tool can physically access. Where we describe these mechanics, we describe the architecture, not the marketing.
• Documented sourcing. Legal and policy content draws on published statutes, enforcement patterns, and platform documentation, and is written as general information — not legal advice, and not a substitute for counsel on your specific facts.

Independence and Monetization

Our own tools are free, browser-based, and cost nothing to use — they exist to demonstrate the honest version of what this niche promises. We never accept payment to feature, rank, or recommend a third-party tool.

Our most important editorial rule: we accept no payment, commission, or consideration from viewer-tool or monitoring-software vendors — and we do not review, rank, or recommend their products at all. This niche's coverage economy runs on affiliate commissions, which is why its "rankings" are advertisements. Our role is the opposite one: we investigate how these products claim to work, document why they fail, and describe what they cost the people who try them.

The site is supported by advertising (including, when approved, contextual advertising such as Google AdSense) placed clearly apart from editorial content. Advertising never influences which topics we cover, what we conclude, or how anything is framed. Pages containing ads are marked by their placement, never blended into editorial content as recommendations.

Investigation Methodology

Every investigation of a product or claim applies the same criteria, so readers can audit our judgments:

1. Technical honesty — does the product claim capabilities that are impossible? The first question, and usually the last one needed.
2. Delivered function — does it do what it says, tested on our own devices and accounts?
3. Monetization path — what the funnel asks for, what it actually charges, and how the charges renew.
4. Data handling — what the vendor or site collects from visitors, and what its track record shows.
5. Harm profile — what happens to the visitor who believes the claim.

Updates and Corrections

Instagram changes constantly, and so does the scam landscape. Every article carries a last-updated date reflecting substantive review — not cosmetic refreshes. Funnel patterns are re-walked and platform behaviors are re-tested when Instagram ships significant changes. If you find an error, send it to us via the contact page with the article URL — verified corrections are published promptly, and significant ones are noted in the article itself.

Sources and Attribution

Where we reference laws, platform policies, or public incidents, we name them in the text rather than burying them in footnotes. We do not fabricate test results, invent user testimonials, or present marketing materials as independent findings — a sentence that should not need writing in this niche, but does.

Limitations

Two honest ones. First: the scam economy rotates domains and rebrands its funnels constantly; our findings describe patterns as of each article's update date. Second: our legal coverage is general information by design — jurisdictions vary meaningfully, and nothing on this site is legal advice for your specific situation.

Contact

Questions about this policy, disputes about our coverage, and correction reports all go to the same place: the contact form. We answer our critics as promptly as our readers.