Facebook Finally Puts a Price on Privacy: It’s $10 a Month
Meta is about to roll out ad-free subscriptions on Instagram and Facebook. But critics say privacy should not be turned into a luxury.
Ad-free != Privacy
Just because you're paying $10 a month does not mean that Meta will stop farming your data. Sure, they won't shove you any ads, but they will stockpile data for the day you decide that $10 (it's not really $10.. they will increase this price 2-3 years down the line once they feel they had gathered enough users, the Silicon Valley way) and then pump you with ads that cater you.
Also I'm sure they will sell your data to whoever can pay for it.
They don't directly sell data, nor does Google. They analyze and use that data to sell targeted ad space.
There are data brokers that gather a ton of data and openly sell it, but Facebook isn't one of them. Their customer data and the resulting ability to sell extremely specific ad space is probably their single most valuable; why would the sell it itself when they can sell the access it grants instead?
A pay-to-see-no-ads is not the same as pay-for-privacy.
That $10 won't give you any real privacy. They will still collect every bit they can about you.
The $10 will just not give you targeted ads. Most likely, they will still select things for you based on your profile and also sell information from that profile to the real customers.
Bingo. They don't give you targeted ads through their own platform, but the info is for sale for everyone else to do so.
No! It's actually free: Simply stop using Facebook!
You also need your family to not use Facebook (if they ever mention you they will collect that information)
Guarantee you pay $10 and your privacy still isn't protected.
Is there a tier where you can pay them to stop allowing people to instruct a mob to kill you?
Not getting killed by online mob == free lunch
What do they always say about free lunches?
Considering their ceo is Jewish and Nazis still congregate on there, probably not
Buts it’s probably not gonna give you any privacy, they’re still harvesting and selling your data, you just don’t see the ads on meta platforms.
This is to appease regulators, it is not a viable solution for their users.
Regulators that seems to have already unformally shoot down the proposal given that it seems to be against the GDPR.
So much for the
"It's free and always will be"
I can never understand how selling one's information isn't considered a form of payment.
well thats mark zuckerburg for you, but even then your data is still gonna be sold ig
FB has become ransomware.
Always has
Oh in Europe only. Not in the US. The news article should have specified that in the title
Nah, American news also fail to specify "only in the US" every time. So it's kind of refreshing to see the tables flipped for once.
This paymemt does not even stop their crappy 'recommended for you' suggested content on user's wall, which is even more annoying than the ads.
Sure, I'll pay that - as soon as they pay me $15 per month for the data they're stealing from me.
"It's free and always will be"
€15 here.
Yeah, not paying even if it's 9.99€
I'd take it at €5 if I used Instagram a lot. The current asking price is too high though, almost like the data is worth so much to them that they put the price tag high enough that it's unreasonable.
I’ll give them a one time payment of $10 to fuck off
