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Meta (Facebook / Instagram) to move to a “Pay for your Rights” approach
- emsy 3y agoThis would actually make me use Facebook again, if they can get me to trust them. Their new Metaverse stuff looks interesting.
- jcrash 3y agoLike what? As someone who likes VR, Meta's ecosystem seems like the most boring. Also, if you're able to put any trust in Facebook at this point, I'll just say:'fool me twice'. For me, trust arrives on foot and leaves on horseback
- emsy 3y agoThat’s right, I would certainly wait a couple of years, if they even pivot. The recent demo with avatars looked pretty cool though.
- lillecarl 3y agoI'd pay, but 14$ a month seems a bit steep, they don't make anywhere close to that from me today.
- dotcoma 3y agoI would not go back to using Facebook even if THEY paid me 14$ a month…
- Condition1952 3y ago“Don’t use this data in your behaviour dataset! It’s from a paying customer
- lacker 3y agoThis headline is pretty misleading. The WSJ headline is much better: "Meta Plans to Charge $14 a Month for Ad-Free Instagram or Facebook" Of course, the generally superior WSJ article is behind a paywall, which is funny when the topic under discussion is paywalls. https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-floats-charging-14-a-month-for-ad-free-instagram-or-facebook-5dbaf4d5 https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-floats-charging-14-a-month-for... I don't use Facebook too much any more, but I pay for ad-free Twitch and I would be happy to pay for ad-free Twitter if it existed. These services don't just build themselves for free, and if you don't like their ads, doesn't it seem fair to pay for them?
- stephenlindauer 3y agoI suspect this will lead to a decrease in ad quality. Showing worse ads will result in a little green bar for increased number of paying users, and the overall quality of the newsfeed will continue it’s death spiral.