Meta Thinks Your Privacy Is for Sale. Would You Pay 120 Euros a Year to Facebook for Respecting Your Human Right to Privacy?
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Meta's approach of 'pay for your privacy' is wrong in so many ways. Let's find out why!

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!

  • Leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
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    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:

    1. What about all the tracking that Meta do on non-Meta sites?
    2. 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.
    3. The pricing Meta are going to charge is clearly meant to deter people from taking the ad-free model up.