Pffffffft omg thanks for giving me yet another reason to never log on to my FB account. I wonder if they're doing separate ones for IG & Threads or if they'll be bundled. Either way, I'll happily shut down my IG, too- that site is a gigantic cesspool now.
Hot take: this is very good. I mean, I'm personally unlikely to ever buy anything from Meta and that's a horrendous price BUT in general I'd rather pay for a product than be exploited by an ad "ecosystem".
For $15 a month I would expect *at least* to be able to see things in chronological order, from the people I follow in the format that they want to post it. Somehow I don't think that's something they're going to suddenly provide
But I don’t know if this is even legal with the new privacy laws here, to opt in like this, and I am certainly not interested in just giving them the access.
It's a response to those laws, I believe - they've got to give an opt out option, so they've decided to charge enough for it that everyone opts in to letting them sell their data on instead.
what I’ve heard is that they’ve done this not because they want anyone to sign up for it but because it gives them a way to circumvent EU privacy rules somehow
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Probably was worth that at some point, but not any more, thanks to what Cory Doctorow calls enshittification
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
But I don’t know if this is even legal with the new privacy laws here, to opt in like this, and I am certainly not interested in just giving them the access.