I had turned targeted ads off, on Facebook and Instagram. I still got ads but they were not targeted based on my data. I could live with that

Today I got a popup requiring me to pick an option of either accepting targeted ads or pay the equivalent of €13/$14 for an addfree experience across all meta platforms.

  • Karna@lemmy.mlEnglish
    18·
    8 months ago

    Option 3 : Delete your FB profile, and live peacefully ever after 😀

    • cosmicrookie@lemmy.worldOP
      43·
      8 months ago

      The issue is, that Facebook is the main means of communication for family, friends, work and hobbies.

      • Treczoks@lemm.ee
        72·
        8 months ago

        Then it is high time to change this. It won’t get any better - it will get worse.

        • cosmicrookie@lemmy.worldOP
          4·
          8 months ago

          For me sure, but the people I communicate with, I doubt it. I have transitioned to Lemmy pretty easily from reddit. But Reddit was fairly annonimous. I feel more stuck to Facebook because the iRL people I know are there

  • cheese_greater@lemmy.world
    15·
    8 months ago

    Do you seriously believe that ad-free means they’re not still tracking the hell outta you and aggregating from many sources you probably don’t know about like Patreon and shit?

    Edit: and on the subject of personalized ads, I find it more worriesome when you can’t see whats going on. Its a weird paradox

  • mintyfrog@lemmy.mlEnglish
    14·
    8 months ago

    They don’t even try to claim they’ll stop collecting your data. No one actually cares about seeing a targeted vs non-targeted advertisement; the targeting technology is the issue.

    Paying Facebook $14 a month and still being tracked, just invisibly, solves nobody’s problem.

    • online@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      Giving them payment information makes it even easier to track you too.

  • Bwaz@lemmy.world
    13·
    8 months ago

    Well, the third option is there too and seems the best: don’t use Facebook/meta at all.

    • cosmicrookie@lemmy.worldOP
      11·
      8 months ago

      As far as I know they are only doing it in EU as a response to a new law the EU had enforced on them.

      • jman6495@lemmy.ml
        1·
        8 months ago

        It’s not a new law. The GDPR has been around for years, but meta only recently lost a legal case saying that they cannot contractually force users to provide their data in exchange for access to the service.

        But the GDPR also says consent has to be freely given, some interpet this as meaning that forcing people to pay in order for their data not to be used for ads is not freely given consent.

        • spiderkle@lemmy.ca
          2·
          8 months ago

          Yeap, this is not legal and just round two in the fight META vs EU. The pop-up banner forcing you to opt-in or pay is Zucks way of giving europeans the middle finger. This will likely have to be reversed, but Meta speculates on users giving them the permission to continue collecting data before it happens. It will hurt meta more than europeans. Just do nothing for a while and try not using the apps until they remove the banner. They can’t risk losing engagement for too long because of advertisers.

  • Kir@feddit.it
    9·
    8 months ago

    I would happily pay (not for Facebook, but as a general consideration) if you would give me an ads free eperience AND stop gathering data from me.

  • moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    6·
    8 months ago

    You should delete your account as mentioned here. The second step is creating a new account and pretending you’re under 18. It will be free without targeted ads.

    Repeat the process periodically.

  • Karna@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    8 months ago

    To add more context to it -

    Meta is actually trying to comply circumvent EU’s strict privacy policy.

    Recently, The EU’s top court said in July that Meta must first get consent before showing ads to users - a ruling that jeopardises the company’s ability to make money by tailoring advertisements for individual users based on their online interests and digital activity.

    Source: https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/10/03/meta-could-charge-facebook-and-instagram-users-in-eu-to-go-ad-free-to-comply-with-privacy-

    • cosmicrookie@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      8 months ago

      But it’s not ads in general I personally am opposed. It’s the fact that they have removed the option to show untargeted ads. I personally don’t mind ads but now they force either parsonalized ads or subscription

      It was not their livelihood that was at stake, but the potential for more profit