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Meta (Facebook / Instagram) to move to a "Pay for your Rights" approach (noyb.eu)
submitted 2 years ago by 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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[–] 37 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Anyone with more than a single brain cell should move to federated/decentralized platforms with a "Don't pay but still have more rights than a Facebook user" approach

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    network effect – easy when it’s just you – but then you need to convince all your friends and family to switch over as well – and they’re not interested because it would mean convincing all their friends and family too … best you can hope for is a trust thermocline, a catastrophic event that’s more likely to leave millions of Facebook users floundering in anger than in curiosity at alternatives …

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    The approach I took is organize my contacts into three categories The people that I talk to on a daily basis, people that I occasionally talk to, and people who I rarely ever talk to. For the first group (less than 10 for me), mostly close friends and families, I just bullied them to use an alternative platform like Signal until they caved in. For the second group, I recommend Signal to them but also left them with my phone number so they can text me if needed. For the third group I did nothing. Then I proceeded to delete FB Messenger off all my devices. I still log in to the web version maybe once per month to check if anyone from the third group needs to reach me or if there's any group events going on. I did not fully get off FB but I ended up reducing 99% of my usage and 100% of the garbage in app and location tracking. To me this is good enough

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Dude you'd be surprised the amount of dumb mofos walking around you. I am 100% sure there will be some losers willing to pay that amount to use Facebook.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    It's not about the price, nobody will pay. People who use Meta doesn't care about privacy. They will just click "accept for free" and that's it...

    It's a way to force people to accept theire conditions even if the law force them to give us the choice.

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