Meta Now Charges $200 Annually for Privacy – A High Cost for User Data Security
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I’d pay it except I don’t trust Meta not to collect the data or continue to monetize it in some way.
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> it's a shocking infringement
This is wanting one’s cake and eating it too.
Facebook makes a product. Users use it. In the past, people reasonably complained that there was no way to pay without compromising one’s privacy. Now there is. (I want enforcement to confirm that those paying are not being tracked. But given that constitutes fraud, it will be enforced.)
Rejecting tracking and paying is like rejecting ad-corrupted journalism and paywalls: it isn’t a principled stance, it’s just wanting free stuff.
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#6But does this mean ad free? If so, worth it for any real users.
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To be honest, this is because society wants to monetize everything. Went to Whole Foods the other day and they expected me to pay for the basic human right of having food to eat. Society these days is sick. Bezos is a billionaire and we still have to pay for food?!
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#8meh, I opted for the free version yesterday expecting better personalized ads and still getting the same irrelevant stuff as before. Now edge in the other hand... I've never accepted anything from them and are targeting me hard (can't find the opt-out button, the "new page" feeds are a sooo bs)
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> it's a shocking infringement This is wanting one’s cake and eating it too. Facebook makes a product. Users use it. In the past, people reasonably complained that there was no way to pay without compromising one’s privacy. Now there is. (I want enforcement to confirm that those paying are not being tracked. But given that constitutes fraud, it will be enforced.) Rejecting tracking and paying is like rejecting ad-cor…
While you're correct in the purest sense of what you say, this is an unfair realization of the exchange. It's very zoomed in to the micro level. The macro level is much more interesting.
It's not wanting free stuff. "Meta", and many many web services, literally scream "hey here's a free way to connect with your friends" or whatever their pitch is. And then operate in ways that violate the rights of the people they attract to use their service in the name of "more money" (note, more money because the reality of it is that Meta could easily offer privacy and still operate, just at lower profits). Offering a paid version, in the way that this does, is putting a bandaid on a bullet wound. It's holding you hostage and saying "you can use this the way we intend and we'll violate your privacy or you can pay for that to not happen".
When in reality the proper way to have such an exchange would be to say "Dear Users, the service we provide you costs $200 a year, however if you would like that to be free you can opt in to these incredibly hostile and violating contracts if you would like". But, we all know that no one would join that service because it's too honest about its exploitative nature and so the user-hostile nature of these companies goes on ad nauseam.
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#10But does this mean ad free? If so, worth it for any real users.
it appears so, if you're in the EU: https://about.fb.com/news/2023/10/facebook-and-instagram-to-...