"In a move to circumvent EU privacy law, Platform giant Meta reportedly plans to ask users to pay up to €228 a year to preserve their fundamental right to privacy on its platforms."
Read our blog post for EDRi to learn all about Meta's next coup
https://edri.org/our-work/meta-plans-paid-subscription-for-users-who-dont-want-to-be-tracked/
@noybeu and what's their offer to non-users who don't want to be tracked?
I (a determined non-user of Meta's services) see a legal minefield here.
@simon_brooke
I think in their heads the answer is "just pay us".
@noybeu Requiring payment to use their platforms should not be controversial, but accepting your breached privacy as payment should be.
@noybeu Well... I deactivated my Twatter account the other day, and it's getting so I wouldn't miss Faecesbook if that went too...
@noybeu I can't wait to NOT paying that.
@noybeu I don't think committing a new beach of an EU law is a way of avoiding a massive fine for another beach of r same EU law, but I'm not a highly paid lawyer
@noybeu But imagine if a significant number of people paid 13euros a month.
There would be division that made 3x per user profit compared to the ads version, with lower server costs and higher user satisfaction. What a fox that would put in the hen house.
A smart manager could ride that to the top.
@noybeu Since they deem EU user data is worth 13Euros per month and have been found illegally using our data 2018-2023, does that mean all Meta EU users will get 780Euros from them?
@noybeu
To be fair, Meta tools are not a right. Social media is not a right. Using them is a choice. A very peer pressured choice. But still a choice.
One of the things I like about Mastodon is that while a choice, you also have a lot more choices under it about where you put what you want. You can even make your own instance and decide you own level of privacy. It may cost money to host and time to manage. But anything worth doing is usually not easy or free.
But lets not confuse a free-ish service with a right. (Spoiler, it's not free, you just currently don't have to and over money, but that is apparently coming.)
@lisamelton
I used @noybeu's #MetaOptOutTool some time ago to object to data collection by #Meta.
Yesterday I received the email 'Upcoming changes to your ad experience' from Meta shown in the screenshot below. Meta now actually wants to force us to pay money if we want to object to data collection for personalised advertising.
The link 'new choice about your ads' in the email refers to the URL https://about.fb.com/news/2023/10/facebook-and-instagram-to-offer-subscription-for-no-ads-in-europe