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> Be the customer not the product. Didn't someone from the Facebook executive float a paid version of Facebook in an interview recently? I'm not on Facebook bu

• theophrastus 9y ago
  I believe this was raised via an inference during the Zuckerberg testimony[1]. That is, since he stated with significance that there would always be a free version of facebook it suggests that there is at least a non-free version on his "whiteboard". [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/10/mark-zuckerberg-there-will-always-be-a-version-of-facebook-that-is-free.html https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/10/mark-zuckerberg-there-will-a...
  • icebraining 9y ago
    The COO also hypothesized it: http://fortune.com/2018/04/07/sheryl-sandberg-says-facebook-users-would-have-to-pay-for-total-privacy/ http://fortune.com/2018/04/07/sheryl-sandberg-says-facebook-...
• stanmancan 9y ago
  It's a nice idea in theory, but does anyone honestly believe Facebook would stop collecting, analyzing and sharing your data just because you paid them? Sure you might not have any ads displayed to you, but that's not a privacy concern anyways since Facebook doesn't provide user data directly to advertisers anyways; they just allow them to use a set of filters that rely on your data to help target ads. Not to mention the latest privacy concerns with Facebook really have nothing to do with advertising, and more to do with their lack of reliable security with your data (ie the Cambridge Analytica data leak, which was done via an app). The only way I'd truly trust that my data isn't a product in and of itself is if I'm paying for a service from day one, and there are no "free" accounts period.