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Meta wants to charge EU users $14 a month if they don't agree to personalized ads on Facebook and Instagram
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this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2023
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I hope that also includes WhatsApp. Europeans are addicted to that shit.
Shit? It works across all platforms, in all countries, unrestricted and unpaid, and thus far, adfree. That's pretty great, if you ask me.
Key words: "thus far"
Facebook wouldn't have acquired it if they didn't have plans to squeeze the living soul out of it. In due time. Their hope is that by then, all alternatives will be wiped out, and with it being so integrated as a daily driver, we'll be paying a subscription, with no E2EE, sharing metadata (which btw is sometimes more valuable than the content of your messages) unwillingly.
What's funny/crazy too is that all the top execs (including Zuck himself) use Signal. That's the irony of the digital world we live in: the closer you are to these technologies, the more you learn, and the less subjected to it you actually wanna be.
Do you have a source for what tools they use?
Zuck uses Signal: https://mashable.com/article/zuckerberg-on-signal
Linda Yaccarino uses Signal (but not Twitter 🤣): https://9to5mac.com/2023/09/28/x-ceo-iphone-home-screen-x-isnt-there/
Other names are blanking right now off the top, but in The Social Dilemma, the engineers and ex-execs talk about not allowing their family members (especially kids) to be on the platforms they themselves built. I specifically remember an Instagram engineer (Bailey?) and a VP/president of Pinterest.