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Meta (Facebook / Instagram) to move to a "Pay for your Rights" approach (noyb.eu)

submitted 1 year ago by elvith@feddit.de to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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The Wall Street Journal reported that Meta plans to move to a "Pay for your Rights" model, where EU users will have to pay $ 168 a year (€ 160 a year) if they don't agree to give up their fundamental right to privacy on platforms such as Instagram and Facebook. History has shown that Meta's regulator, the Irish DPC, is likely to agree to any way that Meta can bypass the GDPR. However, the company may also be able to use six words from a recent Court of Justice (CJEU) ruling to support its approach.

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[–] dimath@ttrpg.network 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

The company:

We can provide you a free for you service paid by advertising.

Users:

No, I want privacy.

The company:

Ok, paid service then.

Users:

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I would feel a lot better about it if the price was anything close to how much they actually make from people's data. Something like $30 per year according to Facebook themselves, in 2019.

But yeah, the notion that people should be entitled to all these online services completely free of charge while also not allowing it to be paid for through advertising is ludicrous.

[–] Hexagon@feddit.it 9 points 1 year ago

You could have advertising without creepy tracking surveillance. Contextual ads, based only on the content of the current page and nothing else. Still relevant, still makes money

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