Facebook and Instagram users in the European Union will be charged up to €12.99 a month for ad-free versions of the social networks as a way to comply with the bloc’s data privacy rules
Facebook and Instagram users in the European Union will be charged up to €12.99 a month for ad-free versions of the social networks as a way to comply with the bloc’s data privacy rules
Charges of €12.99 a month smartphone users for and €9.99 for desktop introduced to comply with EU data privacy rules
Awful to see our personal privacy and social lives being ransomed like this. €10 seems like a price gouge for a social media site, and I'm even seeing a price tag of 150SEK (~€15) In Sweden.
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Is it a good news for alternative social media ?
I mean now that people have to pay to use facebook, wouldn't they move to the fedi ?
Also do we want the racist uncle and the boomer memes on the fedi ?
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You can still choose to use the "free" version where you have to accept all the cookies, trackers and I don't know what else.
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True, that part never changed. I'm not using any Facebook social networks, so it doesn't affect me. But adding more options doesn't seem like a bad thing to me, even though the price seems pretty steep.
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Shit thing for me, I use it to reach guests and make announcements for the restaurant. Sucks but that's where most people still get local information.
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But you/they can still use the free, ad-supported tier like before. I don't see any change to people who don't pay.
It just added the option to get rid of ads and trackers in exchange for money.
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People don't have to pay though. The general idea that I hear from most is, that by accepting, things will be as they habe always been. They don't realise or seem to care thatbit has always been illegal
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