If you live in the EU - you may also be faced with this Meta prompt. Info in text.

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Iceblade02@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

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If you, like me, live in the EU, Facebook is now entirely clamping down and forcing free users to make their personal data available for monetization.

Attempting to access any Facebook domain and perhaps also other meta products will redirect you to the following prompt with a choice between either accepting the monetization of your user data, or coughing up a region-dependent monthly subscription fee: base (for me ~10€) + an additional fee (~7€) for each additional facebook or instagram account you have.

Now, the hidden third option. At an initial glance, it seems like there is no other option but to click one of the buttons - however, certain links still work, and grant access to important pieces of functionality through your web browser.

If anyone has information to add regarding Facebook or Instagram, please do share it. I’ve only (begrudgingly) used the former up until now, but I know many others use Instagram and don’t feel like giving a single cent (nor their personal info) to Meta.

www.facebook.com/dyi - perhaps most important of all, now is a good time to make a request to download your Facebook data. Don’t forget to switch to data for “all time” and “high quality” if you intend to permanently delete your account.
www.facebook.com/your_information - here you can find and manage your information, but crucially also access Facebook messenger.
The messenger app: Still hasn’t prompted me with anything, though I expect that will change in the not too far future.

Currently my plan is to use messenger to inform any important friends that I intend to leave FB, and where they’ll be able to reach me in the future.

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logicbomb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

You need to make a choice to continue using Facebook

This reminds me of the movie War Games, when WOPR says, “The only winning strategy is not to play.” The only correct choice to make here is to delete your Facebook account.

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- Iceblade02@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Indeed, I’d like to, and hopefully will be able to. Unfortunately it is basically the universal method of communication at my campus - unless you use instagram… or snapchat… :(
  
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- rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  The evil of the lizard is too great to resist. The only way to win is to deny it battle.
  
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- TheFriar@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  How anyone still has a FB account I’ll never understand—or, I should say, anyone who doesn’t subscribe to the insane, “well I have nothing to hide!”/“anyone reading my information will be SO BOOORED LOLOLOL!” mindset and that actually gives 1/10000th of a shit about privacy.
  
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  - Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Most of my sports and social activities are organized through various Facebook groups, and I’d lead a rather boring life without it.
    
    That’s why.
    
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  - ItsMeSpez@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    For me it is still holding on, barely, as a messaging app. I have a few friends and groups that just refuse to message on other things and that’s keeping me around. I’m tired of evangelizing better options.
    
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  - lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    It pops up every once in a while for things like old classmates getting together. If I weren’t on it I wouldn’t know about it.
    
    It’s also useful for local events like neighborhood festivals that don’t get posted on any other media.
    
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  - BellaDonna@mujico.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I literally had a job that distributed our schedule via a Facebook group exclusively and required an account for requesting changes or interaction about the schedule.
    
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  - Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    You can easily counter that sentiment by asking them if they also leave their door open when they use a public toilet. Since they got “nothing to hide”.
    
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- LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Or stop caring about data being used for ads. Most people don’t 🤷‍♂️
  
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smotherlove@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Third choice: Delete your account and never look back.

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- A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Imagine how many artificially inflated egos would be deflated all at once if facebook/social media went away.
  
  probably be one the greatest things to happen to humanity.
  
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  - schnapsman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Isn’t that incredible? Turns out that connecting people to one another in this way fosters some healthy interaction for those who choose it but also amplifies loads of unhealthy bs. I’m one of those idiots who 15 years ago thought the internet and social media would bring about something of a second enlightenment, a golden area of progressivism, being well-informed, connected to one another in new and beautiful ways.
    
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thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
When the “Subscribe” button is gray and the “Use for free” button is blue, you know something’s up 🤔

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- helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Probably because the lost revenue from not showings ads exceeds the monthly subscription cost.
  
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  - WallEx@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    You think they make 10€ per user in ads? I don’t believe that, the ad market is very competitive and banner ads don’t pay well.
    
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- greybeard@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  One thing nobody has mentioned here is that paying users devalue the ads for non-paying users. Paying users are more likely to have desposableincomee, and are more valuable to advertisers. If advertisers know that the only people being shown ads are those without the money to buy their products, they won’t be willing to buy the ad space.
  
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  - thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    That’s a really interesting point-- I can see that being the case.
    
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- shasta@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It’s because they make more money from your user data, but it also doesn’t cost you money
  
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sndrtj@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
What’s absolutely scummy is that “laws are changing in your region” is not what happened. The law hasn’t significantly changed. What has changes is that the regulator is finally enforcing the law.

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- Benaaasaaas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Also said law doesn’t allow blocking access if you don’t agree to the tracking rules, so let’s see where this goes.
  
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  - archon@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Law opens for supplier to charge money, if necessary to support the service, which is the loophole Meta uses.
    
    Fuck Meta.
    
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Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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Delete that garbage.

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- Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I swore off all Meta products before they were called Meta. One of the better decisions I’ve ever made.
  
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  - Bazoogle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    lol, saying “before they were called meta” as if that was a long time ago. That was 2 years ago.
    
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lostmypasswordanew@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The text is also incredible misleading. The data will still be harvested and monetized, just not for ads.

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- hightrix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Even that claim I find dubious. Yes, your data won’t inform targeted ads on Facebook, but that doesn’t mean it won’t be used for targeted ads elsewhere on the internet.
  
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  - Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    And it most certainly will still be used to make general prediction for the rest of the population
    
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LiamMayfair@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The choice is pretty simple there. If anything, it makes it clear to the user in realistic terms how they want to engage with the site.

Pay up with your money

Pay up with your data

Don’t use Facebook

I despise Meta and all their products but they are entitled to charge people for them. Shit ain’t free to run, you know.

I’d much sooner they showed this banner and force people to make a decision than the opposite, which is to “assume” everyone’s fine with their personal data being harvested and exploited without their knowledge or consent.
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- LWD@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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  - thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Did you omit option 3 for brevity, or because you think it’s not a valid option?
    
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- fuzzzerd@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  That assumes that because they’re paying they aren’t also tracking. They might not use it for ads directly but they’ll still sell it to others that will show you ads off Facebook.
  
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  - FishFace@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Facebook’s data is way more valuable to Facebook; it doesn’t sell data to third parties. If you think they’re going to sell the non-monetisable data to third parties, you have to believe they’re willing to introduce this (which is likely to be unpopular) in apparent compliance with data protection laws, while still flagrantly violating them in secret, without any of their many employees nor any of their partners’ employees blowing the whistle (and Meta as a company leaks all the time). If they were doing that, why would they bother setting up the fake “pay to not be tracked” flow, when they could pretend to honour people’s free requests not to be tracked?
    
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- tabular@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Don’t use Facebook is the best answer but if you must then the next best option is:
  
  Choose a better Adblock
  
  You don’t own your enemy anything. Stop using spyware as a business model or run out of money.
  
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- cley_faye@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Pay up with your money
  
  More like give us money, while also paying up with your data, that we won’t use for tracking, only for resell to people that will sell us back tracking details in a maybe not currently illegal way. Also we also are the “people” that will buy the info and sell back the tracking.
  
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  - CrapConnoisseur@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Fun fact: In Illinois we actually got pretty nice checks from Facebook over them violating a biometric law the state has. I believe most of us in the class action lawsuit got around $300 each.
    
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- Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yeah, even getting them to display this banner is a victory in itself.
  
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b3nsn0w@pricefield.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
this has to be illegal.

like, no, seriously. i’m not a lawyer but i was working on a (since failed) startup in 2018 and distinctly remember how much headache the gdpr caused. literally one of the main things was that you cannot coerce users into consenting to data processing, or make features conditional to them. the gdpr makes a distinction between processing you do to perform a contract (that’s why no one asks for your consent for processing your email address to log you in, that’s implied) and processing you do for other reasons, which require user consent (that’s why everyone asks if they can spam you on the same email – it doesn’t matter that your email address is already on their server, processing it for marketing reasons requires consent of the data subject). opting into these kinds of processing needs to be granular, if it’s not they lose the validity of your consent.

i seriously hope facebook gets slapped so hard over this that no one ever thinks about doing this again. “paying with your data” should never be a thing in any society that calls itself civilized.

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- buddascrayon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I don’t think you understand how this works. I’m not the biggest fan of Facebook but even I know they’re not a charity they’re not a governmental entity. They’re out there to make a profit if they can’t make a profit on their ad revenue then they have to make a profit in another way via a subscription service. So they’re literally giving you the option to either continue using them with ads or continue using them as a subscription service. Your other option is to completely delete your Facebook. I don’t see the problem here. You aren’t entitled to a Facebook page, no matter how useful it is to you personal life.
  
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  - b3nsn0w@pricefield.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    then offer the subscription service as the only option. if they want to do that, it’s on them. but you can tell by the dark pattern on this ui element that that’s not their main goal, they just want to use the threat of having to pay to coerce people into consenting to data processing.
    
    it’s not about entitlement, it’s about playing fair. removing the option to “pay with your data”, and leaving only the subscription or cancellation as options would be fair play. it would also destroy facebook but that’s on them, it’s their decision to make. but if they decide to provide a free service of any kind, they cannot discriminate against those who wish to choose privacy.
    
    and if we’re being realistic, they’re not expecting even 1% of their user base to pay. they are, however, expecting to keep nearly 100% of their user base. that’s what makes this about coercion – if they didn’t have the option to coerce people (and i’m fairly sure they don’t have it legally, but again, i am not a lawyer) the options presented would be very different, because facebook itself wouldn’t be able to afford to only give its service to paid users. you’d probably have a free tier with optional privacy included, which is missing some features, or a paid tier with extra features and privacy included (hopefully non-optionally, but it’s facebook so they’d probably still try to track you).
    
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  - JonEFive@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    And I don’t think you understand the problem. Nothing is preventing Facebook from displaying ads. Facebook’s issue is collecting user data and using it to directly target ads. They can make it so that a user can opt out of personalized ads and still show ads to that person. Companies would still pay to display their ads, perhaps not at the same rate but that doesn’t mean Facebook would be losing money by serving those users.
    
    Let’s not act like Facebook is going to go bankrupt if some of their users opt out of data collection and targeted ads.
    
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- Globeparasite@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yeah I really hope the EU smack’em down. Asking users to pay a fee only because their countries law limit an illegal practice is astonishing
  
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- AeonFelis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I trust that Facebook lawyers are payed enough to make sure that this is technically legal. These laws always have loopholes.
  
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  - cosmicrookie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    It’s a reaction to Facebook methods being deemed illegal in Europe. Although this does not mean than the new model is illegal, it’s an interesting sample of Facebook not always being right even though they have good layers. Both Facebook, Google and many other big tech, operate on the edge of what is legal and often on the other side of it, because it can be profitable enough to just pay the fine if it turns out to be illegal.
    
    This last move, I believe, is more of a statement than it is an actual change.
    
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- nothingness@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  like, no, seriously.
  
  like, what does “like” mean?
  
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  - joel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    It’s how people have been talking for, like, 20 years now at least
    
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  - b3nsn0w@pricefield.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    flair, mostly. lol
    
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  - JonEFive@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Assuming you’re not a native English speaker. It’s a filler word. It doesn’t really mean anything, it’s used more to communicate tone.
    
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- SkepticalButOpenMinded@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I would love for FB to be smacked down hard by the EU, but isn’t this just the inclusion of a new option that didn’t exist before, I.e. the subscription? If you push the right button, isn’t that the status quo that you’ve been using all along without any other option? I don’t understand how giving more options is more coercive than before.
  
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  - b3nsn0w@pricefield.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    no, ever since 2018 when the gdpr actually went into effect, they had to allow users to opt out of data processing individually for different purposes. like, if you want to allow facebook to process your data for improving their site but not for marketing purposes, you need to be able to set that, and facebook needs to respect that. as such, you had the option to use the site without “paying for it with your data” at all.
    
    and if that’s not a viable business model and they need to charge a subscription fee, that’s alright. there’s nothing in the gdpr that says you cannot charge for services. the problematic part here is that they do provide a free service but only if you consent to data processing. like i said, i’m not a lawyer, but i’m pretty sure that’s illegal, and it absolutely should be illegal. if they decide to provide a free tier (or a paid tier for that matter), it needs to be available even if you don’t consent for unrelated data processing. they’re not obligated to provide anything, but if they do provide something, they cannot discriminate against users who don’t want to share their data.
    
    that’s the problematic bit here. privacy cannot be a premium feature. facebook is trying to charge for something here that should be available to all users, whether or not the underlying product is freely available or not.
    
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Gestrid@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
How much you wanna bet your info will still be used for ads even if you subscribe?

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soulfirethewolf@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Lol the wording and design of it all. Subscribe to use without ads, picture of a credit card. Versus Use for free with ads, picture of a shooting star:

Discover products and brands through personalized ads, while using your Facebook account for free.

Plus the little “your current experience” highlighted in green

They really want you to go with the second option so they can try to prove to the court that people want free stuff. When most of them were likely unconsciously coerced into it.

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- Toribor@corndog.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  The big mean regulator is trying to make us charge you money. Click here to pay up or click here to stay free.
  
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PeleSpirit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
They’re actually holding your friends and family hostage, make plans to get them to safety.

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- iAmTheTot@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  That's, uh, a little bit hyperbolic.
  
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  - kamenlady@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Not really, like, you can’t communicate with your family. In my case, i live in Germany, but my family lives in Brazil. It’s the only thing keeping me on Facebook, until now.
    
    Thank God my family switched to WhatsApp for all family stuff. Since there are also family members in Colombia & USA, we have to keep a fixed online place, so we can communicate quickly.
    
    WhatsApp is owned, by meta, just like Instagram. So it is rather when and not if we’ll start seeing ads everywhere.
    
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  - PeleSpirit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Is it? You have to pay or give up all of your rights to stay in contact with your friends and family. What would you call it? Glad to see pro-facebook people here on lemmy, there’s dozens of you.
    
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  - admin@lemmy.my-box.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I’m just glad they didn’t use the term Literally.
    
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Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Dark pattern of the week: button colors.

Can you guess which button Meta really wants you to press?

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zAkk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
“It’s free and always will be”

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- Nobsi@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It is free. You are not paying. You couldnt even get money for your information so its not like youre selling it
  
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  - the_of_and_a_to@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    You are paying with your data. Data is worth a lot. In fact, they’re even stealing it from you.
    
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  - Int_not_found@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    You couldnt even get money for your information
    
    Well, you could. Taking part in surveys in exchange of monetary compensation is a side hustle for many.
    
    And on the other side is sourcing data a huge expense for many research endeavours.
    
    That’s why everybody is buying from Google & Facebook. Because they offer it for relative low cost.
    
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  - Aceticon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Only if you think your time and personal information are free.
    
    You might want to work on your self-worth and business sense if you think that.
    
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mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
LOL why are people using Facebook?

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- antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  To communicate with people, to follow various pages and groups that notify me of the current events in the topics that interest me, to buy and sell stuff in some groups, etc. etc. At least in my case.
  
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- BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I use it for one single purpose, browsing marketplace. I look for local used game stuff and that’s really it. If something peaks my interest I have my girlfriend message them since she uses messenger, I refuse to have it on my phone.
  
  Even then, I’m using Firefox with UBO so even if they do use my browsing data for ads, I ain’t seeing them anyway.
  
  Turns out you can in fact, cuck the Zuck
  
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  - ubermeisters@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Piques* your interest
    
    Just a friendly FYI, could be voice text issue idk no shade
    
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  - scytale@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Don’t forget to use a facebook container on FF as well.
    
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  - Ilgaz@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Firefox with the right extension can do wonders but for Facebook, it is like trying to save yourself from an atomic bomb with a shield made from led. They hire the best developers out there including OSS people to get your personal data one way or another. The day I learned advertisers abuse html5 canvas using miniscule differences between CPUs, I understood the money and development involved.
    
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- helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Because my friends and family, unfortunately use Facebook. Moreso IG these days actually. And if I’m not on there I get left out of fun activities.
  
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- militaryintelligence@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Memes
  
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victorz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Recently uninstalled:

Facebook

Instagram

Twitter/X

Reddit

I feel free. My phone feels lighter, almost. My brain feels lighter.
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- BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Same! I am enjoying the fediverse as a largely nontoxic replacement.
  
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- lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  don’t forget to delete the accounts too! I’ve seen people just deleting the app and thinking their account is gone too.
  
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avater@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Easy fix. Stop using crap like meta, or Reddit, or TikTok, or Twitter or another degenerated platform…

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- gtaman@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Great. Now tell that to my uni please.
  
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diffusive@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The real question, in EU, is not Facebook (or even Instagram). It’s WhatsApp. Business talk with WhatsApp, family talk with WhatsApp, meet a person in a bar? Yep WhatsApp or you are the weirdo

As soon I got the banners, I uninstalled the app and switched to friendly. Not sure if I have such luxury with WhatsApp…. Maybe time to explore matrix? 🤷

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0x0@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’m surprised the EU hasn’t pounced on them for GRPR infringement, maybe there’s a loophole Meta’s exploiting. Being total assholes ain’t a crime.

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bort@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Laws are changing in your region, so we’re introducinga new choice about how we use your info for ads.

Which law?

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NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Sounds like a lot of hassle, when the real answer is to just get rid of Facebook

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lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The boasts of having already left Facebook and the calls for others to abandon it are predictable and tedious. Everyone already knows Lemmy is full of people who wouldn’t touch Facebook with a 10 foot pole. Y’all are not contributing anything by crowing about it; you’re just making noise.

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AWittyUsername@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
“Your info won’t be used for ads” - but it will be used in other ways

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Tau@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
You can delete your account(s) clicking on “accounts in this Account Center” btw

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PepeLivesMatter@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
They were already monetizing your data, just like websites were already using cookies to track you before the EU made it mandatory to inform visitors about this.

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Mango@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I always choose ‘fuck whoever is giving me an ultimatum’. That’s the control freak. That’s the source of problems.

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Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Now I’m looking into hosting an own social media as a replacement for me, my friends and acquaintances. Where we can chat, upload files, organise events, and make posts about all sorts of things.

Anyone got a recommendation for software, preferably open source?

Humhub looked promising, but the “free” version only allows 5 people, which is just dumb.

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Infinity13@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
My relatives are using FB as crazy. Like too much. I was telling them how Facebook is tracking and selling users data, thats why i dont use FB and all i have seen in their eyes was wanting me to shut the f*ck up

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BaardFigur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’ve gotten the prompt. Considering just deleting my account. It’s been basically a zombie-account since around when covid hit.

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PoseidonsWake@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Yep I saw that a few days ago (I live in rep. of Ireland), I then deleted my account because fb for me is just a time waster. My mother decided to opt for the free version and so now she sees more ads than friend activities. She’ll probably deactivate her fb account so she can continue to use messenger.

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hubobes@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Isn’t this just an additional paid option and the ad option is what everyone already had and everyone outside the EU still has?

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