Meta Plans to Charge $14 a Month for Ad-Free Instagram or Facebook

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• vikinghoarder@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Next they will target ad-blockers as reducing their income and trying to ban them using the shitty web drm stuff.

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  • xylogx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Their ads are natively served so ad blockers already are pretty useless for them already.

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    • zewm@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This is why you start using dns level as blocking.

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    • popemichael@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Facebook Purity completely removes all native ads and is updated each time after it breaks.

      It also lets you change the font, size, if pictures load, custom scripts, etc. It works for nearly every major browser.

      I don’t use Facebook except to keep in touch with family, but FB Purity makes things… bearable.

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• foggy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  ISNT IT WEIRD how all these tech companies have been scrounging for change since about when massive sanctions were levied onto Russia for invading Ukraine? It’s almost like there’s a direct link between most of these tech giants and some Russian oligarch. It’s almost like Russia has been basically invading the US via social media for the last decade.

  strange init?

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  • 0x0@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The fallacy in your tinfoil argument is assuming the US are the good guys.

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• HollandJim@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Good luck with that,

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• 0x0@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Meta plans to shoot itself in the foot. FTFY

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• Usernameblankface@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  After so many rumors about Facebook charging for access, it’s hard to take this seriously.

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  • hellequin67@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think this will be aimed at mainly EU members after a law banning targeted advertising (without explicit consent) comes in which will mean a reduction in ad revenue to Meta, as a result they’re hoping to make up the shortfall by charging users for an ad-free version.

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    • topinambour_rex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Why would I pay for free ad when I would already get untarget ones ?

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• schwim@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I haven’t paid a dime and have had ad-free FB for years.

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  • MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How?

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    • schwim@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      On the desktop, I use Ublock Origin and FB Purity.

      On my phone, I use Hermit to containerize FB Mobile and that’s routed through my app and web adblocker, Adguard. I literally haven’t seen an FB ad in years with this setup. FBP also allows you to turn off pretty much every annoyance on the site(you may know, if you like this then, people who do this do…)

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    • sanitetah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ublock origin and the likes

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• iopq@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’d rather give my instance admins this money

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• Enlarging5805@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Add free doesn’t mean tracking free… they still gonna track you and sell your data to advertising companies…

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• snekerpimp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Extract profit, building value is for sucker startups

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• Enlarging5805@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Add free doesn’t mean tracking free… they still gonna track you and sell your data to advertising companies…

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• Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  How is a month of Facebook worth as much as a video streaming service like Netflix? How doest that value compare?

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  • Scolding7300@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What does Meta even make per user? This seems like pure greed/satisfying the shareholders

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• Dramaking37@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  At least we know how much per user per month to charge them when they inevitably lose your data next time

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• Gazumi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  As they say in parts of Liverpool and Ireland… Get te feck!!!

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• olicvb@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Think that’ll push the piracy scene to come out with some patch like the reVanced group? Cuz that’d be nice

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