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 ?
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.
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.
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.
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.
“do we want the racist uncle and the boomer memes on the fedi ?”
The good thing about the fediverse is they can use an instance where their point of view or irrelevant content is accepted, and the rest don’t need to federate with them if they choose not to.
There are many instances where minorities are sheltered from bigotry and harassment isn’t tolerated. The fediverse can deal with these people without problems. It’s designed for it.
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