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Meta’s “overpriced” ad-free subscriptions make privacy a “luxury good”: EU suit (arstechnica.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why do people do their absolute hardest to keep these shitty services alive? Facebook and Insta aren't necessary to survive. If they are too expensive to use and too ad-riddled, people will leave them. Stop giving them a reason to stay. "Reasonable price" is a reason.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Because people don't care and they want to upload the picture of their baby. They don't care that they see ads, they most likely don't know they are being tracked.