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Facebook and Instagram users in the European Union will be charged up to €12.99 a month for ad-free versions of the social networks as a way to comply with the bloc’s data privacy rules (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Awful to see our personal privacy and social lives being ransomed like this. €10 seems like a price gouge for a social media site, and I'm even seeing a price tag of 150SEK (~€15) In Sweden.

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

Instead of paying 10€/month for a desktop subscribtion you can also just use adblocker which does the exact same thing.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

An ad blocker doesn't prevent FB and Instagram internal tracking and usage of personal data, and they don't work on the phone app.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Neither does the subscribtion

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Fair enough.

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