Meta Plans to Charge $14 a Month for Ad-Free Instagram or Facebook::European users would have option to pay fee or agree to personalized ads, according to company’s pitch to regulators

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    Next they will target ad-blockers as reducing their income and trying to ban them using the shitty web drm stuff.

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      Their ads are natively served so ad blockers already are pretty useless for them already.

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        Facebook Purity completely removes all native ads and is updated each time after it breaks.

        It also lets you change the font, size, if pictures load, remove shorts and people you may know, custom scripts, etc. It works for nearly every major browser.

        I don’t use Facebook except to keep in touch with family, but FB Purity makes things… bearable.

        Also, don’t judge the decade’s old style of the web page. The program is really over a decade old and been maintained this whole time.

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          “Served up natively” skirts DNS blocking. To block FB ads, you need something that handles DOM-level blocking, like uBlock Origin. That said, FB is cancer and I recommend blocking the entire platform, not just the ads.

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      I think this will be aimed at mainly EU members after a law banning targeted advertising (without explicit consent) comes in which will mean a reduction in ad revenue to Meta, as a result they’re hoping to make up the shortfall by charging users for an ad-free version.

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    Add free doesn’t mean tracking free… they still gonna track you and sell your data to advertising companies…

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    Add free doesn’t mean tracking free… they still gonna track you and sell your data to advertising companies…

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    How is a month of Facebook worth as much as a video streaming service like Netflix? How doest that value compare?

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    At least we know how much per user per month to charge them when they inevitably lose your data next time

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    Think that’ll push the piracy scene to come out with some patch like the reVanced group? Cuz that’d be nice

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    ISNT IT WEIRD how all these tech companies have been scrounging for change since about when massive sanctions were levied onto Russia for invading Ukraine? It’s almost like there’s a direct link between most of these tech giants and some Russian oligarch. It’s almost like Russia has been basically invading the US via social media for the last decade.

    strange init?

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      The fallacy in your tinfoil argument is assuming the US are the good guys.

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      To you people, everything is somehow linked with Russia. US tech giants have been under the thumb of the feds for the longest time, yet I didn’t see yall complaining.