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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)
submitted 10 months ago by jlh@lemmy.jlh.name to c/europe@feddit.de
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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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[–] morras@jlai.lu 58 points 10 months ago (17 children)

Price is a thing, but having the option to chose is definitely good.

Now comes the real question: do you really trust the Zuck to implement a "do not share/sell anything" policy ? 'Cause yeah, if I'm paying, I'm expecting that none of my data is being sold/processed/transmitted to another company. Paying to just remove ads is .. pointless.

[–] ISOmorph@feddit.de 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

100% this. I'd argue though, that the price point is fair. In 2018, Facebook earned an average of roughly $110 in ad revenue per American user according to this article.

[–] Yamm@feddit.de 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The price might be fair for american users. The average european user makes Facebook about $60 per year. Sorce: https://www.statista.com/statistics/251328/facebooks-average-revenue-per-user-by-region/

[–] ISOmorph@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago

That's super interesting. So ads are possibly only half as effective in Europe?

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