Comment on Welcome to the Age of Paid Social Media

Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• tacosplease@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Fine. But imagining it is as far as I will go.

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  • cyberpunk007@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Mandatory blood sample to register.

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• SCB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If you read the article, you’ll note that paid subscriptions are for ad-free services, which means your data is worthless, which means it won’t be sold.

  The entire point of these models is to comply with EU rules on data harvesting.

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  • dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Lol, it will still be sold. They are still tracking your attention span and clicks. I can already think of two or three correlation tests to sell to advertisers based on that information alone.

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    • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Except this change is occurring because of EU rules that don’t allow them to gather that data.

      Those rules are dumb, sure, but this is the workaround - and personally it’s a workaround that I think is quite untenable. Social media succeeds because it is free.

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