Submitted 1 year ago by nave@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.world
Good. As it should be. This isn’t fixing any issue per se but atleast it’s a step into right direction. A paid service where the users are the customer, not the product, is the way to go. Obviously in Facebook’s case it doesn’t really matter because it’s not like you’re also paying to stop them tracking you.
This would almost get me to use Facebook again. But the content is still a problem.
If their payoff customers get excluded from profiling it would be better but I think this would just exclude from ads and not being profiled for serving thirdparty content.
facebook has no value even ad free
No, I think at this point going to Facebook for the ads would actually be more valuable
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Meta could let users pay for Facebook and Instagram to avoid ads in their feeds, at least in Europe.
The company has been fighting with the EU and other European regulators around alleged privacy violations from its ad-tracking services and data transfers.
The US and the EU signed a data transfer agreement in July, easing restrictions on social media platforms.
Meta has already started offering the ability to opt out from targeted advertising in the EU, and it reportedly proposed going further and shifting it to an opt-in option for everyone in the region.
Meta also delayed releasing its new social platform, Threads, in Europe due to regulatory concerns.
Meta seems to be worried about the upcoming Digital Markets Act that prevents companies from reusing personal user data, including their name and location.
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So how does this work in reality though? Most of the feed is sponsored content. Does that mean that for paid users they would only see posts from their own friends? As in, they get the intended experience of fb?
Imagine paying to get the product a company pretends it is delivering for free. And they still mine your data to sell to the highest any bidder.
I might have been early but I wasn’t wrong
You people will bitch about anything. It really seems compulsive.
andromedusgalacticus@lemm.ee 1 year ago
If it wasn’t Meta, I would almost be okay with this. If I genuinely believed that my privacy was being preserved, I think it’d be a fair trade.
Aopen@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Not just Meta. Every closed software from any developer can potentialy spy on its users