I know two people who have been scammed by ads pushed on Instagram. One for a fake sell of clothes and another for fake reselling of concert ticket. In both instances, price of that scam was worth multiple years of subscription.
Facebook and Instagram to offer ad-free service in UK for up to £3.99 a month
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#12Facebook's logged out landing page used to say "Free forever". Guess there was a corner of the ToS that said "unless we decide otherwise". :)
Edit: OK the wording was "Sign up. It's free (and always will be)" so I guess that remains true.
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#13Ad-free, but is it tracking free?
I think we know the answer to that one.
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#14The problem with Facebook, beyond just ads, is that its algorithm pushes so many posts from groups that I'm not in and don't want to see. I want an option to only see posts from people I'm friends with and groups that I'm in.
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#15£3.99/mo to not display ads anyway. How much to not have all my usage and content collected, tracked, and sold regardless?
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#16I wonder how would the world would have been if these services were paid by their users only, so algorithms optimized for user satisfaction instead of engagement.
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#17Facebook's logged out landing page used to say "Free forever". Guess there was a corner of the ToS that said "unless we decide otherwise". :) Edit: OK the wording was "Sign up. It's free (and always will be)" so I guess that remains true.
Wouldn’t Free forever also still be true? If I understood correctly this is just taking the existing experience and removing ads? Lots to complain about with Meta but this is not one of the reasons.
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#18The problem with Facebook, beyond just ads, is that its algorithm pushes so many posts from groups that I'm not in and don't want to see. I want an option to only see posts from people I'm friends with and groups that I'm in.
> only see posts from people I'm friends with and groups that I'm in.
If you're on the website (not app):
https://www.facebook.com/?filter=all&sk=h_chr
If you just want to see friends and not groups:
https://www.facebook.com/?filter=friends&sk=h_chr
(I am "Meta Verified", but they still locked my account over my name even though I sent them my ID. They have been "reviewing" my ID for the past two months. If anyone can help, my email is in my HN profile. Thank you.)
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#19The problem with Facebook, beyond just ads, is that its algorithm pushes so many posts from groups that I'm not in and don't want to see. I want an option to only see posts from people I'm friends with and groups that I'm in.
It's under "feeds" on the menu. The URL is https://www.facebook.com/?filter=all&sk=h_chr on desktop.
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#20The problem with Facebook, beyond just ads, is that its algorithm pushes so many posts from groups that I'm not in and don't want to see. I want an option to only see posts from people I'm friends with and groups that I'm in.
Use fbpurity