Meta mulls a paid subscription to remove ads in the UK - Hypertext
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Meta may give users the option to pay it to stop serving ads to them.
  • Following a major lawsuit loss, Meta is mulling the idea of charging a subscription to remove advertising for users in the UK.
  • A similar offer is available in the EU.
  • Advertising is Meta’s biggest money maker so this may simply be a case of talk as the company tries to appease regulators.
  • venotic@kbin.melroy.org
    14·
    4 days ago

    Now once this inevitably reaches the US, will this finally be the turning point to get more users off FB?

    How much are people willing to pay, to not only avoid ads, but to continue sharing slop around?

    • formulaBonk@lemm.eeEnglish
      10·
      4 days ago

      It’s going to be one of those things where you pay to remove the obvious ads already marked as promoted content. Then it will be replaced by endless feed of accounts posting ai slop that markets specific items/ideas to people. Why get paid to put Tide ads on side banner when the user can pay you to receive fake content promoting right wing ideology (in exchange for access to power in the us). There is no world in which Facebook, a tool to generate fake consensus, is not filled with advertisements. Paid or not paid, you’re being advertised to on there

    • NarrativeBear@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      4 days ago

      How much are people willing to pay~~, to not only avoid ads, but~~ to continue sharing slop around?

      Fixed that for you.

      • Arkouda@lemmy.caEnglish
        4·
        4 days ago

        How much are people willing to pay~~, to not only avoid ads, but ~~to continue sharing slop around?

        Fixed that for you.

        “How much are people willing to pay to not only avoid ads, but to continue sharing slop around?”

        You did your best little guy.

          • Arkouda@lemmy.caEnglish
            1·
            3 days ago

            No worries, I get it. I just had to catch you sleeping on that one since you were going for the same. haha

            Have a good one!

        • venotic@kbin.melroy.org
          22·
          4 days ago

          And now you have helped them and they in turn won’t learn so they’ll forever expect you or someone else to come in and fix it for them.

          Congrats, you’ve enabled and awarded laziness.