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If you, like me, live in the EU, Facebook is now entirely clamping down and forcing free users to make their personal data available for monetization.

Attempting to access any Facebook domain and perhaps also other meta products will redirect you to the following prompt with a choice between either accepting the monetization of your user data, or coughing up a region-dependent monthly subscription fee: base (for me ~10€) + an additional fee (~7€) for each additional facebook or instagram account you have.

Now, the hidden third option. At an initial glance, it seems like there is no other option but to click one of the buttons - however, certain links still work, and grant access to important pieces of functionality through your web browser.

If anyone has information to add regarding Facebook or Instagram, please do share it. I've only (begrudgingly) used the former up until now, but I know many others use Instagram and don't feel like giving a single cent (nor their personal info) to Meta.

  1. https://www.facebook.com/dyi - perhaps most important of all, now is a good time to make a request to download your Facebook data. Don't forget to switch to data for "all time" and "high quality" if you intend to permanently delete your account.

  2. https://www.facebook.com/your_information - here you can find and manage your information, but crucially also access Facebook messenger.

  3. The messenger app: Still hasn't prompted me with anything, though I expect that will change in the not too far future.

Currently my plan is to use messenger to inform any important friends that I intend to leave FB, and where they'll be able to reach me in the future.

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[–] PoseidonsWake@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep I saw that a few days ago (I live in rep. of Ireland), I then deleted my account because fb for me is just a time waster. My mother decided to opt for the free version and so now she sees more ads than friend activities. She'll probably deactivate her fb account so she can continue to use messenger.

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[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The boasts of having already left Facebook and the calls for others to abandon it are predictable and tedious. Everyone already knows Lemmy is full of people who wouldn't touch Facebook with a 10 foot pole. Y'all are not contributing anything by crowing about it; you're just making noise.

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[–] akilou@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

There should be a "neither, close my account now" option.

[–] heygooberman@lemmy.today 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I recently discovered Pixelfed and Friendica on the Fediverse. They are the equivalent to Instagram and Facebook, respectively. Perhaps now would be a good time to migrate over to those platforms?

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[–] hubobes@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Isn’t this just an additional paid option and the ad option is what everyone already had and everyone outside the EU still has?

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[–] InfiniteFlow@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Yup. Got it last week. Found this shit so disingemuous it almost pissed me off more than the privacy violation itself. I dont use any of Meta’s stuff except for WhatsApp out of necessity (some groups from the kids’ school), but i keep getting dumped into FB by busineses that dont have a proper webpage…

[–] terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago

There's a missing third option: Don't use it at all.

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