I had turned targeted ads off, on Facebook and Instagram. I still got ads but they were not targeted based on my data. I could live with that

Today I got a popup requiring me to pick an option of either accepting targeted ads or pay the equivalent of €13/$14 for an addfree experience across all meta platforms.

  • cheese_greater@lemmy.world
    38·
    1 year ago

    Do you seriously believe that ad-free means they’re not still tracking the hell outta you and aggregating from many sources you probably don’t know about like Patreon and shit?

    Edit: and on the subject of personalized ads, I find it more worriesome when you can’t see whats going on. Its a weird paradox

  • Rearsays@lemmy.ml
    12·
    1 year ago

    I choose option three.

    To fully delete your Facebook account, you would need to go through Facebook’s account deletion process. I can guide you through the steps:

    1. Click on the account menu down arrow at the top right of any Facebook page in your web browser.
    2. Select ‘Settings & Privacy’, then click ‘Settings’.
    3. Look for the ‘Your Facebook Information’ section.
    4. Click on ‘Deactivation and Deletion’.
    5. Choose ‘Permanently Delete Account’, then click ‘Continue to Account Deletion’.
    6. Follow the instructions to confirm the deletion.

    Remember that once your account is deleted, it cannot be recovered. If you wish to keep the data, make sure to download a copy of your information before deleting your account.

    If you’re logged in, you can directly go to the deletion page using this link: Delete My Account

    Just copy and paste the URL into your web browser’s address bar. Note that you may need to log in to Facebook again to access this page.

  • Karna@lemmy.mlEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    Option 3 : Delete your FB profile, and live peacefully ever after 😀

    • cosmicrookie@lemmy.worldOP
      33·
      1 year ago

      The issue is, that Facebook is the main means of communication for family, friends, work and hobbies.

      • Treczoks@lemm.ee
        62·
        1 year ago

        Then it is high time to change this. It won’t get any better - it will get worse.

        • cosmicrookie@lemmy.worldOP
          4·
          1 year ago

          For me sure, but the people I communicate with, I doubt it. I have transitioned to Lemmy pretty easily from reddit. But Reddit was fairly annonimous. I feel more stuck to Facebook because the iRL people I know are there

  • NabeGewell@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    Oh man I get to pay AND have my data taken? Collected by the corporation and stolen by hackers? What an amazing company, truly the leaders of the future of the web Meta is

    • online@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Giving them payment information makes it even easier to track you too.

  • Bwaz@lemmy.world
    8·
    1 year ago

    Well, the third option is there too and seems the best: don’t use Facebook/meta at all.

    • cosmicrookie@lemmy.worldOP
      11·
      1 year ago

      As far as I know they are only doing it in EU as a response to a new law the EU had enforced on them.

      • jman6495@lemmy.ml
        1·
        1 year ago

        It’s not a new law. The GDPR has been around for years, but meta only recently lost a legal case saying that they cannot contractually force users to provide their data in exchange for access to the service.

        But the GDPR also says consent has to be freely given, some interpet this as meaning that forcing people to pay in order for their data not to be used for ads is not freely given consent.

    • Zak@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      Quite a few people I know ranging in age from 20s to 40s do. There isn’t really a replacement with its defining characteristics:

      • One-to-many blog-like posts
      • Mostly for interactions between people who actually know each other
      • Most people have an account and at least occasionally check it

      It’s that last point nothing else can match. If I post something to Facebook, most people I know have a chance of seeing it. Five people I actually know follow me on Mastodon.

  • moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    4·
    1 year ago

    You should delete your account as mentioned here. The second step is creating a new account and pretending you’re under 18. It will be free without targeted ads.

    Repeat the process periodically.

  • oxjox@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    The statement reads well, and I’ll take them at their word, but if an algorithm exists to show you “relevant” content, they’re collecting data and using it keep you on the platform.

    This has been my issue with ‘social media’ for the past ten(?) years. As soon as Instagram switch the default from chronological to what it thinks you want to see, it’s continued to be more and more shitified (so much that I no longer use it).

    The beauty of the early days of social media was that it was real-time. I could see who was doing what right now. I could see what establishments were hosting events tonight. Instead, these platforms decided it was more to their benefit to show posts it thinks will keep you on the platform longer - to show you more ads. For me, this lead to finding out days later that things have happened I would have like to have done.

    Wall Street run Social Media is garbage. Businesses, organizations, governments, etc., need to go back to publishing content on their own websites (or the Fediverse) and enabling RSS feeds.