Meta is considering offering ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram for $14 a month – but only in Europe.

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.

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I have a much cheaper method of avoiding personalised ads on Facebook and Instagram.

    STOP USING FACEBOOK AND INSTAGRAM.

  • torpak@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Ad targeting should just be banned outright. It serves noone and creates huge pools of easy to abuse data.

  • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Could you EU people turn that around and charge fuckzuck 14 euros for every month you’ve kept your account, as that’s the apparent value of your profile?

    • Rambi@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Now that’s something I could get behind… €2,352 would be pretty nice lol

  • moitoi@feddit.deEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    So they’re admitting regulations work. They are making a lot less money due to random ads instead of targeting ads so they will have to charge to be sure they are still making too much.

    I can’t wait for the next regulations against tech corporations and social media.

  • torpak@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    So you give them $14 and hope, they don’t sell your data? I never had a facebook/whatsapp account and never will and I know why.

  • HiramFromTheChi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Maybe enshittification is actually a good thing. Hear me out: the worse things get, the more motivated people are to ask questions, migrate to alternatives, build better platforms, and hopefully 1) enact well-informed legislation, and 2) prevent what appears to be this “necessity” of enshittification from continuing to happen in an endless cycle.

    • HiramFromTheChi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      WhatsApp pre-Facebook acquisition was phenomenal. Had close to half a billion users paying $1-$3 per year. I think the team was no more than 15 and profitable.

      It was actually private and secure, and obviously sharing no metadata with Facebook as it does today.

      Oh, what coulda been. Gotta build and support Signal now. (WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton is executive chairman of Signal now.)