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Meta wants to charge EU users $14 a month if they don't agree to personalized ads on Facebook and Instagram::Meta is considering offering ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram for $14 a month – but only in Europe.

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[–] set_secret@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

$14 a month is insanely. maybe 1 dollar a month is reasonable. given they'll still be working their ads into 80% of the bullshit that is Facebook feeds.

[–] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Damn, I was reading this and my head was correcting it to $14/mo for an ad-free experience, and even that was ridiculous.

$14/mo for "ads, but we pinky swear that we won't use the data we're still definitely collecting on you to prepare your ads" is just a joke.

How about instead, Meta pays out $14/mo per user, for the data they're collecting?