Meta faces permanent ban on targeted ads across Europe
Meta faces permanent ban on targeted ads across Europe
Norway has succeeded in getting a permanent, EU-wide ban imposed on Meta's collection of user data for targeted ads on Facebook and Instagram. This landmark ruling favors user privacy over corporate interests.
Norway has succeeded in getting the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) to make permanent and extend across Europe its ban on Meta (Facebook's parent company) harvesting user data for targeted ads on Facebook and Instagram.
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They're already starting their paid ad-free $10 a month tiers for Europe only. They'll stop showing advertising to underage people "for now". They're going to flood Europe with garbage ads and maximize subscribers that way.
I can't fathom people willing to pay $10 for Facebook and twitter .
Addiction is a hell of a thing
I know it's a week-old thread, but I just received the notification on the Instagram app about the subscription and I have a few thoughts. First of all, here it's actually 12 euros. As a relatively light user - I check Instagram maybe once or twice a day and FB once a week or every two weeks, just to keep in contact with people I don't text -, that's a lot of money to give to Meta for those services. I'm all for paying to have content without the tracking and the ads, but not 12 euros unfortunately. Which is, I guess, why they chose such a high price.
They won't. They'll just sell their private data.
As someone who tried to make a living caring about people's privacy, people don't care. The only time they pretend to is when they need to explain why they buy the new iphone pro model yearly (but they'd turn on a dime if apple said "we're building an ad platform! Look how pretty our ads are!")
Hopefully they'll do that, so people would stop using their platform and move to a less money-hungry unetichal alternative.
What would the alternative be? A genuine question. I'm not a Facebook fan at all but here in Denmark so much is on Facebook. Announcements of the local playground, cafés, events, almost everyone uses messenger. It's insane. And if it's not on FB then it's on Instagram.
Isn't mastodon/the fediverse sponsored by the German government? Maybe we could do something around that
I don't know. But mastadon is hardly an alternative to Facebook or Instagram.
Yeah, it feels like there's no alternative.
I only hope Facebook will be bad enough that people would even want to seek another alternative.
Otherwise I don't see people switch.
All of those are outside activities, right? In my town we have flyers and stuff in a few different locations. At times I get annoyed I can't find information about events online, and then I think no it's actually a good thing.
Just don't? If I need to use Facebook to interact with something I just rather spend my time on almost anything else.
Seems to be working for YouTube!