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Meta May Be Infringing on GDPR With Their New Paid-For Ad-Free Model (tutanota.com)

submitted 1 year ago by leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Recently a European Court has judged that Meta's way of collecting and using people's data in Europe has been in violation of privacy regulations between 2018 and 2023. Now Meta announced an option of Facebook and Instagram without personalized ads for 120 euros per year. European users would have the option to pay or agree to personalized ads. But is your right to privacy for sale? Let's find out!

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[+] Situated6583@lemmy.ml -41 points 1 year ago

Well... Meta isn't a charity so they need to have a monetization model. If something is free then you are the product. Is 120 euros not worth your privacy? If the answer is "no" then your choice is to accept the ads or not to use the platform. I don't see how this is a problem.

[-] leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 44 points 1 year ago

So, that blog post is by Tutanota who, as we're all aware, also offer a paid-for product. But there's a lot of difference between a paid-for product that will only respect your privacy if you pay for it (and even that is questionable) and a paid-for product that just does respect your privacy, even on their free tier.

And, as others have said, Meta have made little to no mention of several things about this paid-for model:

What about all the tracking that Meta do on non-Meta sites?
On Meta sites, there's very little mention of them not tracking you anymore - they're just saying (as far as I can see) that they're not going to serve you personalised ads anymore.
The pricing Meta are going to charge is clearly meant to deter people from taking the ad-free model up.

[-] jackpot@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

point 3 is actually irrelevent unless this is done for propaganda reasons (highly likely though). theres no reason they wouldnt want to make a large amount of money and offering a choice that wasnt there before isnt a scenario where we're somehow worse off - at the worse we're the same

[-] leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Is it really a choice though if you want to be private but you can't afford 13 euros a month?

It's not the fact they're charging that's the issue, it's the fact they're charging such a massive amount of money.

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