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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)
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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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[–] Don_alForno@feddit.de 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In the case of Facebook, the average value of an active user’s data to Facebook is about $2 per months.

They shouldn't be allowed to charge more than that.

Source

[–] mreiner 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Respectfully, an article from four years ago that I cannot read in full without creating an account, which seems to just reference a calculator from FT that is over a decade old at this point (whose sources I also cannot seem to find) doesn’t impress me. Do you have anything more recent, preferably that sites sources, that you can share? I’m genuinely interested in what data is actually worth

[–] Don_alForno@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

All valid points. Tbh I'm not on FB or any of meta's services, and I don't care about FB enough to put in more research time. I consider this a data point to start from.

Facebook should be required to show how a single set of a random user's data actually means even close to 13€ a month of revenue for them. This is not a good they willingly put out on the market, this is an alternative the law forces them to give to people, and it should actually have to be equivalent.