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Tell HN: I can report Facebook's new subscription does not work
Being a very infrequent Facebook user, I logged in after being told a friend was organizing a party through Facebook events. Was greeted with a choice to subscribe or opt-in to ads. Chose to try the subscription (billing starts in March). After trying multiple cards, I was unable to actually subscribe. So much for choice.
- Raed667 3y agoI can report that you can go to https://www.facebook.com/settings https://www.facebook.com/settings without needing to pick the free/subscription option and deactivate your account.
- throwaway154 3y ago+1 useful.
- cookiengineer 3y agoI can report that I am still waiting for my GDPR mandated data checkout from metacompliance.com after filing it every month over again, which they happily ignore. I think their web form just lands in /dev/null and nobody bothers to do anything. Time to get a lawyer and report them, I guess...
- Mrirazak1 3y agoQuestion is are they going to still harvest data? No point paying if they will still do exactly the same thing?
- HenryBemis 3y agoThey will definitely continue to harvest (and process/sell) data. The only thing that stops is displaying ads.
- dotcoma 3y agoDoesn’t Ublock Origin do the trick for free? I thought it did; I quit Facebook and I’m very happy I did.
- Raed667 3y agoUnless they make a big deal out of it, assume that Facebook will always harvest as much data as they can. I would also assume that it would be more complex to create exceptions in the data ingestion/retention pipelines, than in the ad display ones.
- brianhorakh 3y agoI stopped using Facebook many years ago, now with hindsight that was One of the very best self-care decisions I've ever made in my life.
- drstewart 3y agoI'm guessing most of your stress wasn't from Facebook, but years of running up a huge debt from your failed startup while not getting sufficient exercise or nutrition.
- flowzai 3y agoRecently facebook get lots of complain for this problem and bugs