The company said the changes are for users in the European Union, in response to evolving EU regulatory feedback

Sounds like a petulant child throwing a tantrum for being told 'no'.

minimal set of data points including a person's age, location, gender, and how a person engages with ads.

Sounds like they're skirting the regulation.

allowing people to connect with the brands and products that are most relevant to them.

"Connecting with brands and products" is not even remotely close to why people use social media.

Tf are they going on about?!

Good thing FB and Insta themselves are skippable.

It will relate to users who choose to see less personalised adverts in their feeds.

ah, because regular evil wasn't enough.

Ooh, that's bad... Anyway...

Not for me. I've found a clever way to avoid these ads.

Well, let's hope it'll piss people off into seing the light

TL;DR

If you choose to let us track you'll get personalized ads

If you choose to NOT let us track you'll get tons of intrusive and unskipable ads

Friends don’t let friends use Facebook.

Oh, I skip FB and IG ads completely. It's crazy: I didn't even have to install anything, and the ads just disappeared one day.

But seriously, the "your attention is being monetized" model makes for such an awful experience for me. I'm envious of people who can enjoy the world and the Internet when ads are everywhere.

Chill out, I already had enough reasons to not use those sites.

When I used Instagram, I used it through Instander for extra features (and ad blocking). It worked pretty well, and it's a mod of Instagram so the interface was the same.

Wow, they are buying ads but haven't made any new content since 2012?. Must be a desert bus for hope promotion.

My MAGA mom will be so annoyed…

Hmm, I swapped FB with Lemmy for my quick dial when the elections heated up, guess I'll just leave it that way.

'Unusable' social media apps.

Cool, most of the time THEY want ME to watch something on the platform, it's not like I come to Facebook to watch stupid shit