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EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy
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this post was submitted on 18 Apr 2024
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I honestly don't understand how what Facebook is doing a bad thing. The deal has always been that targeted advertising is how you pay for a free service.
This isn't exclusive to Facebook.
Offering an ad free experience for a subscription fee is an extremely common practice. Do people really expect to be able to use an entertainment platform for free?
Always is a heck of a long time. Decades ago when ads on websites slowly became popular it was just ads. But no personalized targeting.
Extremely common practice does not make it good nor does it make it a good reason to normalize or ignore these things. For example exploitation in labor and in housing is also extremely common practice. No reason to make exploitation on the Internet seem like a fair game and expand it further. Sustainability should be a key word here in my point of view.