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I doubt this is a business decision. Ads on Instagram and FB are not very annoying. Almost nobody will pay to get rid of them. I think it is a way to cope wit
by TekMol 3y ago
I doubt this is a business decision.
Ads on Instagram and FB are not very annoying. Almost nobody will pay to get rid of them.
I think it is a way to cope with the GDPR. The GDPR says you can't offer a service in return for user data. Aka it is not allowed to say "You can't use our service unless you let us also store data unrelated to the service about you.".
But so far, there seems to be no court decision about the approach Meta is taking here. "You can't use our service unless you let us also store data unrelated to the service about your OR you pay us money".
- Macha 3y agoA lot of media companies have tried the same move in the last year, so it will be interesting to see if Meta adopting it helps or hurts that strategy for them too.
- x0x0 3y agoThere are a handful of court decisions. One in Austria for a newspaper that said accept ads/data collection or buy a subscription which was, at least initially, ruled acceptable per gdpr. And I think there's been some challenges; I haven't paid attention over the last 6 months.
- herbst 3y ago> Ads on Instagram and FB are not very annoying. Almost nobody will pay to get rid of them. I am not sure what people think is annoying but 90% of my Instagram is ads and weird suggestions. There is barely any legitimate use case other than promoting my own bullshit to other bots.