You’re framing this as if a facebook account were mandatory. If you can’t afford $10 per month, don’t use facebook. I don’t.
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BolexForSoup@kbin.social 10 months agoThis assumes everyone who values privacy can afford another $10mo sub in their life. People with more disposable income have better access. In an issue of consent that shouldn’t be the case.
bleistift2@feddit.de 10 months ago
BolexForSoup@kbin.social 10 months ago
I never said anything of the sort and I don't know why whether or not the service is mandatory matters. The issue isn't the service, it's their assumptions about what rights we do or don't have. It has to be opt-in as per GDPR, facebook by putting up a cost has made it opt-out and tied to a monthly expense.
pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 10 months ago
Using Facebook is not something that’s necessary. You’re asking a company to give away services for free.
The whole reason it’s free is because you are the product, and it’s almost always been that way. If you value your privacy and don’t want to pay for Facebook, that’s a personal decision, and the government shouldn’t be involved.
DrWeevilJammer@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Let’s say that I’ve never had a Facebook account, but Facebook still has a lot of data it has collected about me from multiple sources, including other Facebook users, who might post photos that I am in, or share information about me in posts, neither of which i gave consent to anyone to share.
Is it fair that my only option to protect my private information is to CREATE a Facebook account and pay them to STOP collecting and selling my private information?
pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 10 months ago
That’s not what is happening here. Facebook is offering to let you pay for an ad free experience. It has nothing to do with shadow profiles.
BolexForSoup@kbin.social 10 months ago
That is exactly what is happening here.
BolexForSoup@kbin.social 10 months ago
You are conflating a lot of different things here and I’m a little too busy at work today to completely disentangle it, but the short version is that none of us are ignorant about what “free“ means online. That is not the debate here so I’m not sure why you’re going off on that when I don’t even disagree there in the first place. It’s just not relevant.