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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 (www.businessinsider.com)
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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::Meta is considering offering ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram for $14 a month – but only in Europe.

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[–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Facebook has ads? I've been using FBP so long I guess I forgot they existed

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I only used FB in a dedicated virtual machine, with vanilla Chromium in Incognito mode. So, I got the full experience, and I hope I limited my ad relevancy (on my main VM, I use Firefox with Ghostery and Ublock Origin, which I hope stops FB button trackers).

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I hope that's satire. You really go to all those lengths to access Facebook? Maybe it's time to embrace the withdrawals.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Not satire, and not great lengths. I treat Windows as a shell, which runs virtual machines dedicated to specific jobs. I have an office VM, gaming VM, etc. It's safer, better organised, lower maintenance, and at current levels of computer power, performant without being a drag on my computer resources.

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