Meta wants to charge EU users $14 a month if they don’t agree to personalized ads on Facebook and Instagram::Meta is considering offering ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram for $14 a month – but only in Europe.

      • iByteABit [he/him]@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        The ads are not the main problem, the main problem is how the “personal ads” are chosen by harvesting and sharing all your private data.

        A tracker blocker is a more suitable solution along with the ad blocker.

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          1 year ago

          correct, actually both together. dns blocking both trackers and ads will result in your profile never being harvested. It will still be there with limited info, whatever they have gathered from facebook scrolling, likes, chat and comments, but it will not be queried in order to show you ads.

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      1 year ago

      That’s the point. It’s grossly overpriced because they don’t want people to get it, but they need to offer it to comply with EU rules.

      Basically extorting the users.