Facebook and Instagram launch a paid ad-free subscription - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
from schizoidman@lemmy.ml to technology@lemmy.ml on 30 Oct 2023 13:25
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autotldr@lemmings.world on 30 Oct 2023 13:30 next collapse

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The service is available throughout the European Union and will be offered for around €9.99 per month on the web or €12.99/month on iOS and Android to account for those platform’s additional fees.

The subscription is meant to address concerns by the European Union around Meta’s ad targeting and data collection practices.

By making users choose between paying for the service to remove ad targeting or using the service for free but consenting to its data collection practices, Meta believes it will have more clearly and definitively met requirements under a collection of European data laws, including the Digital Markets Act and GDPR.

“We respect the spirit and purpose of these evolving European regulations, and are committed to complying with them,” Meta writes in a blog post announcing the new subscription.

The tone of Meta’s announcement makes it clear that the company is still prioritizing the ad-supported business that its platforms are built upon.

The company writes in its blog post that it “believe in an ad-supported internet” and frames the new subscription exclusively as a product derived to meet European regulations.

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selokichtli@lemmy.ml on 30 Oct 2023 13:38 next collapse

So, a paid ublock origin experience?

theshatterstone54@feddit.uk on 30 Oct 2023 17:48 collapse

Worse. If you pay, they still collect your data. With Ublock, a lot of trackers are blocked.

wagoner@infosec.pub on 30 Oct 2023 22:01 collapse

It’s even worse than that: when you pay they now have your full legal name, payment information and home address. More than they likely had before you opted out of advertising!

selokichtli@lemmy.ml on 31 Oct 2023 00:54 collapse

Absolutely right.

tooLikeTheNope@lemmy.ml on 30 Oct 2023 14:25 next collapse

Lol, fetching pop-corn

RenardDesMers@lemmy.ml on 30 Oct 2023 14:26 next collapse

Meta believes it will have more clearly and definitively met requirements under a collection of European data laws

Questionable considering that Facebook, Instagram and third parties share user data not only for ad targeting.

HerbalGamer@lemm.ee on 30 Oct 2023 14:27 next collapse

ha ha ha ha fucking ha

AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz on 30 Oct 2023 14:50 next collapse

I’m confused. The article states that the monthly feed is to remove ad targeting, which I assume means no ads. It does NOT say that they won’t collect data on you, just literally that they won’t use the data they collect to give you ads.

So this has nothing to do with opting out of data collection, just opting out of ads? That’s the feeling I get from the article.

Edit. Well I guess I’m not confused, this is also the wording the Meta’s post uses and definitely says nothing about opting out of data collection.

DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.ml on 30 Oct 2023 17:44 collapse

They would lose a good chunk of free income. People underestimate how much this is worth.

kratoz29@lemm.ee on 30 Oct 2023 18:48 next collapse

Imagine paying a subscription to remove ads.

Not even in my wildest dreams, as a teenager being amazed at what Facebook was and the evolution it brought to post shit with folks connect with relatives on the Internet I would ever think about this kind of shittification.

If I could time travel and advise about shittification to people using services like Facebook, Twitter or Google… Heck, sounds like a good time travel movie, but I can’t see anyone having the balls of doing it, and I think nobody would listen anyway 😂

JoYo@lemmy.ml on 30 Oct 2023 22:21 collapse

man, i just want to see what the people i follow posted.

i dont even need to pay extra to get that on the fedi.