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Meta’s “overpriced” ad-free subscriptions make privacy a “luxury good”: EU suit (arstechnica.com)
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[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 74 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Ad-free facebook has nothing to do with privacy. Nowhere they say they would not collect your data, they will just not show you ads.

It’s extremely annoying how media seems to confuse the two. Many of us would be happy to pay money for real guaranteed privacy, but this is not the option for that.