Hopefully they’ll do that, so people would stop using their platform and move to a less money-hungry unetichal alternative.
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Tischkante@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
They’re already starting their paid ad-free $10 a month tiers for Europe only. They’ll stop showing advertising to underage people “for now”. They’re going to flood Europe with garbage ads and maximize subscribers that way.
themurphy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
pufferfischerpulver@feddit.de 1 year ago
What would the alternative be? A genuine question. I’m not a Facebook fan at all but here in Denmark so much is on Facebook. Announcements of the local playground, cafés, events, almost everyone uses messenger. It’s insane. And if it’s not on FB then it’s on Instagram.
Omniraptor@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Isn’t mastodon/the fediverse sponsored by the German government? Maybe we could do something around that
pufferfischerpulver@feddit.de 1 year ago
I don’t know. But mastadon is hardly an alternative to Facebook or Instagram.
themurphy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, it feels like there’s no alternative.
I only hope Facebook will be bad enough that people would even want to seek another alternative.
Otherwise I don’t see people switch.
hiremenot_recruiter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
All of those are outside activities, right? In my town we have flyers and stuff in a few different locations. At times I get annoyed I can’t find information about events online, and then I think no it’s actually a good thing.
pajn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Just don’t? If I need to use Facebook to interact with something I just rather spend my time on almost anything else.
IndefiniteBen@leminal.space 1 year ago
Seems to be working for YouTube!
yoz@aussie.zone 1 year ago
I can’t fathom people willing to pay $10 for Facebook and twitter .
funktion@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Addiction is a hell of a thing
thethirdobject@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I know it’s a week-old thread, but I just received the notification on the Instagram app about the subscription and I have a few thoughts. First of all, here it’s actually 12 euros. As a relatively light user - I check Instagram maybe once or twice a day and FB once a week or every two weeks, just to keep in contact with people I don’t text -, that’s a lot of money to give to Meta for those services. I’m all for paying to have content without the tracking and the ads, but not 12 euros unfortunately. Which is, I guess, why they chose such a high price.
ferralcat@monyet.cc 1 year ago
They won’t. They’ll just sell their private data.
As someone who tried to make a living caring about people’s privacy, people don’t care. The only time they pretend to is when they need to explain why they buy the new iphone pro model yearly (but they’d turn on a dime if apple said “we’re building an ad platform! Look how pretty our ads are!”)