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Meta wants to charge EU users $14 a month if they don't agree to personalized ads on Facebook and Instagram (www.businessinsider.com)

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Meta wants to charge EU users $14 a month if they don't agree to personalized ads on Facebook and Instagram::Meta is considering offering ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram for $14 a month – but only in Europe.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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I would love for everyone to have a legit and easy to understand reason to fuck off from Meta. Also make Whatsapp cost something per message! Twitter should try it too.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

WhatsApp pre-Facebook acquisition was phenomenal. Had close to half a billion users paying $1-$3 per year. I think the team was no more than 15 and profitable.

It was actually private and secure, and obviously sharing no metadata with Facebook as it does today.

Oh, what coulda been. Gotta build and support Signal now. (WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton is executive chairman of Signal now.)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I have used it since 2010, never paid a penny. Moving friends and relatives to Signal has been a waste of time, I feel like I have the first fax machine in the world.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

WhatsApp used to be a yearly paid app. Even though they rarely actually "collected".

I wish it still was and Meta never got their grubby hands on it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was one of the suckers that actually paid for Whatsapp back in 2014. Back then it was just a way to support the devs. They'll never be able to charge for Whatsapp, with all these different free options like Telegram.