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.
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
You are the ad, for Facebook to impress consumer oriented multinacionals
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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.
At this point what about donate to fediverse like Lemmy to get an ads free experence anyway but without beign forced by corps?
That’s what I am doing, actually
The very fact that you’re paying them means giving up your information.
Well, yeah but it’s not what we usually means when we talk about data economy, aren’t we?
It’s not like your credit card and payment info tells you who your mother and the 50 most relevant people to you are
Donate to BRAVE & UBLOCK.
Donate to BRAVE
I’d rather eat a shoe
Tiktok it and doNtr proceeds to Wikipedia then
Brave is sketchy as hell, nobody should ever use them. Ublock I agree with.
Thnx 4 explain
Oh man I get to pay AND have my data taken? Collected by the corporation and stolen by hackers? What an amazing company, truly the leaders of the future of the web Meta is
I wonder how the EU is gonna like those two options
It’s seemingly due to the Norwegian ban on targeted ads which recently was expanded to the EEC countries. Law professors here in Norway say it looks like it’s illegal and commentators liken it to extortion that will unproportionally affect low-income people.
So that’s something.
Nobody’s talking about the federated Friendica as an alternative though.
The issue with Friendica, compared to Lemmy/Mastodon/etc, is that you’d need your friends and communities to also move to Friendica, which hardly happens
Are you thinking about Diaspora? Friendica is AP, you can subscribe to Lemmy communities from Friendica.
TIL about Friendica
https://consent.guide/cookie-or-pay-walls/ has the latest case law
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Option 3 : Delete your FB profile, and live peacefully ever after 😀
The issue is, that Facebook is the main means of communication for family, friends, work and hobbies.
Then it is high time to change this. It won’t get any better - it will get worse.
Is the switch to Mastodon a possibility for you?
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
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.
Giving them payment information makes it even easier to track you too.
I choose death.
Well, the third option is there too and seems the best: don’t use Facebook/meta at all.
Pay or not. They will still sell your data
I choose option three.
To fully delete your Facebook account, you would need to go through Facebook’s account deletion process. I can guide you through the steps:
- Click on the account menu down arrow at the top right of any Facebook page in your web browser.
- Select ‘Settings & Privacy’, then click ‘Settings’.
- Look for the ‘Your Facebook Information’ section.
- Click on ‘Deactivation and Deletion’.
- Choose ‘Permanently Delete Account’, then click ‘Continue to Account Deletion’.
- Follow the instructions to confirm the deletion.
Remember that once your account is deleted, it cannot be recovered. If you wish to keep the data, make sure to download a copy of your information before deleting your account.
If you’re logged in, you can directly go to the deletion page using this link: Delete My Account
Just copy and paste the URL into your web browser’s address bar. Note that you may need to log in to Facebook again to access this page.
The deletion isn’t automatic/immediate if I recall correctly? If you accidentally log in within 30 days, they cancel deletion automatically.
As I understand it, even after that they keep your data, just you can’t access it anymore.
Does anyone still even use Facebook? Aside from boomer parents? TikTok, not THAT’S a data mining platform!
For me, it’s the main means of communication both for family, friends, hobbies and even work!
Quite a few people I know ranging in age from 20s to 40s do. There isn’t really a replacement with its defining characteristics:
- One-to-many blog-like posts
- Mostly for interactions between people who actually know each other
- Most people have an account and at least occasionally check it
It’s that last point nothing else can match. If I post something to Facebook, most people I know have a chance of seeing it. Five people I actually know follow me on Mastodon.
This is more than likely illegal in the EU…
