I had turned targeted ads off, on Facebook and Instagram. I still got ads but they were not targeted based on my data. I could live with that
Today I got a popup requiring me to pick an option of either accepting targeted ads or pay the equivalent of €13/$14 for an addfree experience across all meta platforms.
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Giving them payment information makes it even easier to track you too.
I choose violence.
I would happily pay (not for Facebook, but as a general consideration) if you would give me an ads free eperience AND stop gathering data from me.
At this point what about donate to fediverse like Lemmy to get an ads free experence anyway but without beign forced by corps?
That’s what I am doing, actually
Donate to BRAVE & UBLOCK.
I wonder how the EU is gonna like those two options
The statement reads well, and I’ll take them at their word, but if an algorithm exists to show you “relevant” content, they’re collecting data and using it keep you on the platform.
This has been my issue with ‘social media’ for the past ten(?) years. As soon as Instagram switch the default from chronological to what it thinks you want to see, it’s continued to be more and more shitified (so much that I no longer use it).
The beauty of the early days of social media was that it was real-time. I could see who was doing what right now. I could see what establishments were hosting events tonight. Instead, these platforms decided it was more to their benefit to show posts it thinks will keep you on the platform longer - to show you more ads. For me, this lead to finding out days later that things have happened I would have like to have done.
Wall Street run Social Media is garbage. Businesses, organizations, governments, etc., need to go back to publishing content on their own websites (or the Fediverse) and enabling RSS feeds.
Oh my God you have to pay for a service you use?
The scandal! The outrage! The horror!
That pricing is clearly insane and unreasonably high
Then don’t use it. I don’t use Facebook every day.
People who want to use FB every day (that doesn’t include me) shouldn’t have to choose between targeted ads, and excessively high pricing.
They could have continued non-targeted ads or made the pricing reasonable
People who want to use Facebook can pay, deal with ads, or just not use the site. This isn’t some huge scandal and nothing is really wrong here
Why are you on c/Privacy when you don’t seem to care about data tracking and forced targeted ads?
Because I browse the root website and don’t pay any attention to the sub communities. Are you wanting to speak exclusively to like minded individuals who never criticize or oppose your thoughts?
Fair enough I suppose, just expect backlash here when you’re advocating for Meta arguably shitty things
