Buying an ad-free subscription option from Facebook is like buying a PETA calendar from the merchandise store of a factory farm. You’re just supporting the factory farm with another line of revenue as it tries to whitewash its core business model.
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(As I’ve said many times in the past, I don’t know why they didn’t start talking about/implementing this sooner. It is the next logical step in their PR offensive / privacywashing efforts to muddy the waters in an attempt to stave off more regulation.)
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so, if we pay they will not collect any of our data, none of them, not even to train their AI models etc etc. we will actually be free?
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Nope, the opposite. Unless they contractually state otherwise, they will continue to do all those things. This is a public relations drive, not an overhaul of their business model and entire architecture.
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however they gonna put it it's going to rip us off anyway. Corporations history is a history of crimes
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Which problems would go away if Facebook switched to zero ads, entirely funded by end users? They'd still need to gather user data to recommend content well, and still need to share it with some apps/partners for them to offer cool services users want.
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I think some of the API restrictions could go away. A lot of the tight control of APIs is there to prevent third party clients from filtering or deprioritizing ads. Without those restrictions, we could build clients that show feeds that optimize different behaviors.
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So, you could have a feed that optimizes for feelings of well-being, or for broader or deeper social connections. The feed could be optimized to make you a more informed or effective citizen. All this optimization under _your_ control, targeting your personal goals.
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And, of course, third-party clients could decorate the feed items with credibility scores, with contextual background information, or with conversation culled from the net.
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