Comment on Ad-free Facebook, Instagram access planned for $14 per month in Europe

i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Aetherians@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Isn’t this exactly what Netflix is trying to do with their paid subscribers?

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  • Vent@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Netflix didn’t start with ads, and the ads don’t affect pre-existing subscription tiers.

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    • ares35@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      ... other than the fact that they cost more to 'make room for' the ad-supported service at and near the former price points.

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      • Vent@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Did some more research and Netflix did remove their “Basic” plan when they added the cheaper ad-supported tier. They also raised the prices of their other plans, but those increases were consistent historically, so I’m not convinced the addition of an ad-supported tier caused them. Graph of Netflix prices from 2011-2023

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    • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      For what it’s worth, Facebook didn’t have ads way back in the day

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• abhibeckert@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Uh, no. The system is:

  • the law requires us to make tracking an disabled by default
  • we are not profitable unless users opt-in to tracking
  • so - make the app $14 by default, unless you opt-in

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  • ares35@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    they don't 'win' if europeans tell zuk to take a hike in sufficient numbers. decline the tracking for 'free' use and declining the paid option.

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    • wantd2B1ofthestrokes@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So basically decline to use Facebook? I’m skeptical. People will just opt in to the tracking, most people don’t care.

      Even if they did and chose to go to some other platform, they’ll eventually run up against the same business model decisions.

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• Xel@mujico.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Next step might be to add some ads to paid version?

  Yep:

  Amazon is sticking ads in Prime Video shows and movies unless you pay more

  Netflix with ads arrives

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  • ares35@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    we've been using prime video quite a bit here with our latest 'trial'. the ux has degraded a lot since the last one we had. they're pushing the paid shit (third-party subs, rentals, 'purchases') way too much on the 'related' and other lists and links. it's gotten so bad, you need to use a third-party site just to find the 'free with prime' content, because amazon sure af ain't gonna list it so you can find it easily.

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• Heresy_generator@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  • Next step might be to add some ads to paid version?

  Yup. Add "a few" "unobtrusive" ads "relevant to your interests" to the $14 dollar tier while offering a new $20 ad free tier.

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• Neato@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I stopped using Facebook years and years ago when adblockers failed to stop FB ads. I have yet to find one that actually works.

  When I took a look to see if it had improved, the feed wasn't even chronological. I get posts from days ago on top and posts from hours ago buried pages in. The posts at the top of the feed are even ones I've seen before. FB has become entirely useless and only bother for the few groups that insist on using it.

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  • ares35@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    traditional rules-based blockers like ublock origin fail because facebook randomizes tags and code on their pages specifically to prevent them from working well, or even at all.

    fbpurity.com is designed for facebook.

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  • i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ads don’t particularly bother me but they do get tiresome when every other post is an ad. I don’t use FB though. YouTube ads are getting increasingly irritating - it seems that every two minutes during a video there will be an ad break, but I refuse to pay for a subscription for the small amount I use YouTube. I think there are some alternative interfaces which stop the ads but I keep forgetting to use/try them.

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    • ililiililiililiilili@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Try YouTube Revanced (requires modding APK) or LibreTube (available on F-Droid) if you’re on Android. Go with SmartTube on Android TV. Just use Firefox + uBlock Origin if watching YouTube on a computer.

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      • i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Libretube is the one I installed!

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