Meta wants to charge EU users $14 a month if they don't agree to personalized ads on Facebook and Instagram - eviltoast

Meta wants to charge EU users $14 a month if they don’t agree to personalized ads on Facebook and Instagram::Meta is considering offering ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram for $14 a month – but only in Europe.

  • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    Are they going to tell all the websites (with Facebook trackers) to stop tracking you when you pay? I highly doubt it.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah exactly. All those Google and Facebook tracking pixels are still firing away.

      This is merely a privacy facade. What they’re really doing is double dipping (same way Twitter’s doing), by charging a subscription, but still data mining and harvesting behind the scenes.

      The adage of “if you’re not paying for the product, you’re the product” is gone. Now you’re both.