Remember when Snopes would dig up “No, Facebook ain’t going to charge you, silly!” debunks every few years? Presumably to fish ad clicks from that elderly aunt scared she’s going to lose access to her favorite local knitting group.
What Snopes failed to disclose, there, is that the call was coming from inside the house.
The new proposal would offer European users two choices: continue using free versions of Instagram and Facebook with personalized ads, or pay for ad-free subscriptions. The changes would not affect Meta app users in other countries, including the U.S.
Now, you could argue — if you are a sycophant who thinks giving billionaires your personal data is a fair deal just so you can continue to doom-scroll instead of taking up useful hobbies and getting more sleep — that giving up personal data for “advertisements” is easy. And free.
And you might say even, “Sure, they will sell it to law enforcement to carry out mass surveillance on an unprecedented scale, but the doom-scrolling, Doug. You want me to just like…live with myself?”
But in their desperate push to devour more data to justify eco-crashing data centers being fast-tracked around the world, Meta has starting telling the same content creators that justify the existence of their entire site that…well…
Got to love it when Meta tells its users that their data is worth €5.99 – €7.99 [I’ve seen two different values, quoted] per month. That much, huh?
Sounds like a great backbone for a really big lawsuit to recoup all the stolen value from content creator’s hard work currently being funneled into AI-training machines.