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.
Do you seriously believe that ad-free means they’re not still tracking the hell outta you and aggregating from many sources you probably don’t know about like Patreon and shit?
Edit: and on the subject of personalized ads, I find it more worriesome when you can’t see whats going on. Its a weird paradox
You are the ad, for Facebook to impress consumer oriented multinacionals
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
The very fact that you’re paying them means giving up your information.
Well, yeah but it’s not what we usually means when we talk about data economy, aren’t we?
It’s not like your credit card and payment info tells you who your mother and the 50 most relevant people to you are
Donate to BRAVE & UBLOCK.
I choose violence.
I wonder how the EU is gonna like those two options
deleted by creator
The issue with Friendica, compared to Lemmy/Mastodon/etc, is that you’d need your friends and communities to also move to Friendica, which hardly happens
TIL about Friendica
I can think of a third option. Send me $20 and I’ll disclose the secret.
Send me $10 and I’ll let you know if this guy is legit or not so you don’t waste your $20!
Send me $9.99, one time payment, no subscriptions here!
Use code NOV2323 on my services to save an additional 15% off!
I choose death.
Oh man I get to pay AND have my data taken? Collected by the corporation and stolen by hackers? What an amazing company, truly the leaders of the future of the web Meta is
Pay or not. They will still sell your data
deleted by creator
Giving them payment information makes it even easier to track you too.
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!
Well personally I don’t mind them showing ads. I do want them to not spy on me to have them be targeted. It’s where I draw the line.
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
