> If you want to use Facebook without targeted advertising, you need to either convince them that they don't need all that money, or pay it yourself. And that's

> If you want to use Facebook without targeted advertising, you need to either convince them that they don't need all that money, or pay it yourself. And that's just Facebook. I hate this argument. It's tries to find a solution to sustain the status quo in the face of change. But that's illogical because if there is a change, then the status quo is going to change too. The only way Facebook is going to stop doing targeted advertising is if they're forced to, likely due to new regulations. If that happens, Facebook's entire business model will collapse, so they'll either have to make massive fundamental changes to how they make money, or they'll die and be taken over by a competitor. In either case, users don't "owe" Facebook anything. Consumers are the life blood of the economy, and thinking about how consumers should change their behaviors to sustain a corporation is backwards thinking.