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Meta Now Charges $200 Annually for Privacy – A High Cost for User Data Security

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Re: Meta Now Charges $200 Annually for Privacy – A High Cost for User Data Security

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Some quick googling: Estimated users of Facebook: 3 billion. Meta annual revenue: $120 billion 3 billion × $200 is significantly more than Meta's annual revenue. There's paying for a service and there's being ripped off.

They aren't going to get anywhere near 3 billion subscribers.

In everyplace where they can offer users a choice between the $200 subscription with no targeted advertising plan and the current no monetary cost but they use your data for targeted advertising plan most people will choose the latter.

Re: Meta Now Charges $200 Annually for Privacy – A High Cost for User Data Security

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post #41
post #26

Some quick googling: Estimated users of Facebook: 3 billion. Meta annual revenue: $120 billion 3 billion × $200 is significantly more than Meta's annual revenue. There's paying for a service and there's being ripped off.

They aren't going to get anywhere near 3 billion subscribers. In everyplace where they can offer users a choice between the $200 subscription with no targeted advertising plan and the current no monetary cost but they use your data for targeted advertising plan most people will choose the latter.

The point is is that the value the company derives from targeted advertising against a given user is clearly an order of magnitude less than the headline $200 they ask for not being able to do it.
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