noyb files GDPR complaint against Meta over “Pay or Okay”
noyb files GDPR complaint against Meta over “Pay or Okay”
Meta charges up to €251.88 to respect the fundamental right to privacy of EU users. This is a violation of the GDPR
Meta charges up to €251.88 per year to respect the fundamental right to privacy of EU users. This is a violation of the GDPR.
Are Meta even committing to stop tracking when users pay? Or are they simply not showing targeted ads but still totally tracking?
Well considering if you actively avoid meta products for ethical reasons they still make a ghost profile of you made from photos people upload with you in it and contact lists of people who have you in their phone and allow meta full access to their shit for some reason, “just in case” you ever join Facebook. Fairly sure it’s then used to build a profile of you and your internet use to serve you ads and sell your tracking data. Fuck the modern day internet is just fucking rotten at the core. I’m not sure I answered your question but I think it gives you the gist
Follow-up question, does paying for Facebook do anything about tracking & ads run by Meta outside of their ecosystem?
I literally cant believe them. And would not pay a cent. Meanwhile I donate all the time to peertube, lemmy, mastodon, etc
I think that, at least for users out of the EU, the only alternative will be to change to the i2p network or to use more extensions and scripts than bookmarks in the browser to avoid this surveillance crap of these data hogs "to make America great again" I only hope that in the future the EU becomes a little more alert in offering enough software and services to be on level eyes of those in the USA. There are very good products in the EU, but most of them little known and marginal, the few that have made a name for themselves are KDE, Proton, Tuta and Vivaldi, little else..
They claim to not track you then, but just to be sure I finally took the step and deleted both Facebook and Instagram.
Kinda sucks, because those are the platformed I used mostly to keep informed about local events and businesses.
Where do they claim that?
The article from Facebook I found about the subscriptions is this one: https://about.fb.com/news/2023/10/facebook-and-instagram-to-offer-subscription-for-no-ads-in-europe/
The only relevant thing I saw related to the topic was "while people are subscribed, their information will not be used for ads". It does not say that information will stop being collected. Just that it will not be used for ads.
So by all interpretations, there is in fact no suggestion that they will stop tracking paid users.
Given that the average phone has 35 apps installed, keeping your phone private could soon cost around € 8,815 a year.
Nice argument they found.
Only I have like 100+ apps installed? 🫣
It's like math at school. You prove the minimum isn't sustainable. You don't care for how far things go. If the minimum isn't viable the rest isn't either.