Just stop using Instagram. I quit mainstream social media (Facebook, Instagram, Reddit,...) and the experience has been quite cathartic.

They don’t want you to pay. They set the price artificially high to discourage you so they continue business as usual while complying to the laws. The price is a PITA charge to make it worth their while and to still profit from the ads they would have shown you.

You would have to pay me 13 Euro a month to even consider using this platform

YouTube premium costs less than that, and that includes a Music streaming service

Just quit, these platform thrive on user generated content while selling your data and now they want money from you so you continue to create content for them.

All because they make you believe that you NEED them to stay in contact and up to date. In reality it's much nicer to speak with friends personally, show a few pics and talk about your/their experience.

Too often when i still used that social media crap people would just cut me off with "yeah i've seen that already on fb,insta etc." and no experience shared.

Being off social media, as weird as that sounds, made me feel more social and it's more fun to interact with ppl again.

It's Meta's nonsense reply to being forced by the European data protection authorities (EDPB) to get consent before processing users data, which they should have from the beginning: https://edpb.europa.eu/news/news/2023/edpb-urgent-binding-decision-processing-personal-data-behavioural-advertising-meta_en

Now we know how much they're making with tracking and ads per user.

Products!? I thought they were services...

Anyway I don't see myself ever paying for social media LMAO, and even less now that I know about the Fediverse... Seems like a VIP lounge for us if you ask me, and I'm okay with that.

13 euros a month... hahahahahaaaa

Phone got stolen last year. New phone, installed instagram, tried to log into account, but locked out.

Instagram tech support told me I either had to: 1) take a photo of myself, they'd check if it matched any selfies in my account, or; 2) I had to associate my Facebook profile.

I'm security conscious enough to not post selfies online, nor use Facebook. Goodbye instagram.

They forgot the third option: don't use it.

It's disappointing that they only exclude the information use regarding ads.

So they will still track everything users do and profile them, just like any other free user. And they can sell to everyone else who pays for user data (e.g. AI learning, market research etc.). With that wording, they could even sell to ad companies, if they e.g. use the data for some algorithm optimisation in their tech department. So they leave the door open to keep selling the data to 3rd parties, while already charging the user 'starting at' 12.99€.

I want to make the, "free", moniker illegal. Advertisers have to pay money for ads and they get that money from us when we buy their products. In addition to having to look at ads, we also have to pay money for the privilege of looking at them. Any ad supported service is objectively not free. No thanks.

Lol people actually pay for shit like this ?

Not to mention $13? Looool

I would normally be ok with paying for a service that offered something I valued if it meant they weren't also going to make money from me as a product. This pretty much just says it won't use your data for displaying ads. That's the least important thing to me. I am more concerned with them selling my data or giving my data to organization that are planning to harm me with it. If an app was actually useful and being updated with new user centered features rather than only new monetization features and additionally would agree not to sell my data, ever, and to let me actually delete that data on request, I'd be happy to pay that much.

No ads on Mastodon

wE oFfEr ChOiCe.

An easy solution for this.

Even this approach is about to be declared illegal by the EU, then what?

They definitely coordinated this and did it with all the other social media. Is nobody buying their data anymore? Brave of them to straight up admit they're using your data for ads though, and they're implying it's a bad thing.

Use fediverse instead. ditch instagram

I've just taken the app off my phone and use adblock when I'm on the desktop browser version. I still need social media to post my work out there (I get clients that way), but I don't need to look at it 100 times a day.

It's honestly been a big quality of life improvement to take all my social media off my phone. Been a month or two now and I really miss it a lot less than I thought I would and who knows how much time I'm saving.

this doesn't seem legal. at least - it god damn shouldn't be

I don't think the European GDPR allows this (forcing ppl to pay for privacy).

If you want ad-free use Instander on android