Meta offering two options. Either buy addfree experience or accept targeted ads

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.

bioemerl,

Oh my God you have to pay for a service you use?

The scandal! The outrage! The horror!

NENathaniel,
@NENathaniel@lemmy.ca avatar

That pricing is clearly insane and unreasonably high

bioemerl,

Then don't use it. I don't use Facebook every day.

NENathaniel,
@NENathaniel@lemmy.ca avatar

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

Kir,

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.

danileonis,
@danileonis@lemmy.ml avatar

At this point what about donate to fediverse like Lemmy to get an ads free experence anyway but without beign forced by corps?

Kir,

That’s what I am doing, actually

mintyfrog,

They don’t even try to claim they’ll stop collecting your data. No one actually cares about seeing a targeted vs non-targeted advertisement; the targeting technology is the issue.

Paying Facebook $14 a month and still being tracked, just invisibly, solves nobody’s problem.

online,

Giving them payment information makes it even easier to track you too.

ultratiem,
@ultratiem@lemmy.ca avatar

I choose violence.

burtek,
@burtek@programming.dev avatar

I wonder how the EU is gonna like those two options

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