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Just STOP using their service.

This situation isn’t getting any better. After this they will regularly up the price and take out features that you are used to and charged you extra.

They are still gathering and selling your information. Meaning you might not get ads on instagram but your digital fingerprint is still being used literally on every other website that FB works with.

Corporate social media is a toxic parasite that’s only going to enshittify more and more while people are willing frogs boiling themselves slowly.

Join mastodon, pixelfed and peertube. That’s the future of consumer rights and clawing away from billionaire ownership.

Should have posted that chain-text to my Facebook wall years ago so my profile would be blue and safe...

Please forgive me,... I failed you all... 😭

"Your info won't be used for ads"

But we'll still be tracking everything you do and selling that on to everyone who wants it.

I have fond memories of the Internet 20-25 years ago.

How did it turn into this much of a mess? Social Media, SEO, adverts, data mining, profiling, privacy nightmares... what a shit show.

13€? Are they insane? If I were to use the platform I'd be willing to pay 3€ at most. 13€ is just ridiculous.

€12.99/mo. sounds wildly overpriced to me in comparison to 1) cost to serve and 2) ad revenue. I’m not an ad revenue expert, but I have a hard time believing they make anywhere near €13/user/mo. from advertisers.

FOSS alternative is PixelFed

Pixelfed it is then

Ive heard of it, and want to use it, but unfortunately the only reason Im still sticking with instagram is because I have very dear friends who would never change to anything non-mainstream.

This is called the network effect, it's a social problem and no amount of technology will solve this. So your choices are either to stop using apps where you are the product, and obviously convince your friends to stop that as well, or grin and bear it. Maybe think about what you did 20 years ago and do that instead.

I chose option C, don't use Instagram. But thanks, I guess!

The fact that the ad revenue button is more emphasized and easier to press (closer to screen edge) says a lot about the value of you being their product vs. you simply paying them for access.

You need to make a choice, Mr Anderson...

Proxigram:
https://codeberg.org/ThePenguinDev/Proxigram/wiki/Instances

Option 3: uninstall

The sane choice would be to leave.

foss alternative to Instagram

Pixelfed?

Edit: doesn't like Signal stories cover this usecase. I don't really "get" shit like IG tbh

Anecdotally, the last time I checked my dormant Facebook feed it was deserted. I wonder how many people hit that message and just decide they can just nope out and not lose much of value.

I mean, that's what I did the first time it popped up. I only ever logged into that in case somebody was trying to reach me for work stuff, and that never actually happens, so...

As for whether this is GDPR compliant, it seems that FB was convinced it would get them past the newer post-GDPR regulations and the EU has strongly signalled that it really won't, so it's gonna be fun to watch from the sidelines.

I heard in a podcast that this is primarily to address the requirement to not target ads for under 18 and will be free to them. They probably have to offer it as a paid service for anyone 18+ and priced it so that no one actually does.

Without a doubt, everyone is still being tracked.

I setup my own pixelfed instance to share pictures of my kids and family. I own and control all the data on my server and no one gets to monetize pictures of my children.

Not many of my family members are on there but I still prefer it to Instagram

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Just wait 5 months, they'll add a bullshit feature like custom fonts and raise the price 83%

I'll just stop using it if they tell me this. You can sign up for pixelfed. It's a part of the fediverse, too. You can transfer all of your Instagram photos to it very easily. They even have instructions on how to do it. I moved all of my 650 photos in about 20 minutes. Just in case.

Pixelfed for true alternative PWA works Instander exists

Before I suggest this, I'm not 100% how private and secure this is, but AeroInsta doesn't show any ads and promises not to send cookies and any of your data across.

You can download APK from here

Wait, so it's either targeted ads or pay? Damn... Silly me thinking if you don't pay you still could opt out of targeted ads.

But yeah, isn't this against GDPR?

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It seems like a nice idea that they offer a paid option for an ad free internet

yes indeed, you have to make a choice, the time is now, don't _c it up

You can still use Instagram on your browser, without being shown the banner. Works for me with Firefox on Android.

If you do decide to opt for the subscription (I hope you don't) do it from your desktop browser since it costs 10€ instead of 12.99€. I haven't tried it myself, but that's what I read on a German website.

I still need to use the app to stay in touch with some friends and to get updates from smaller organizations that do not have a Web presence or newsletter.

I uninstalled Instagram when I was shown the banner. Not out of principle but I simply don't know which action would send the right signal. By continuing to use the app for free I would be sending the signal that I do not care about my privacy.

So do I pay for the subscription? I read somewhere elsewhere Meta makes more than that off me using targeted ads. So by subscribing do i still get to use the service and they make less money off me? There's no guarantee they honor the no tracking even if I pay.

So I've just uninstalled the app for now.

As far as I understand, this subscription "option" comes from a couple EU member state data protection agencies saying that the "choice" between give up all your personal information or don't use the service isn't good enough.

It remains to be seen if give up all your personal information or pay and still give up all your personal information will be accepted by those and other regulators. I can't imagine it will be.

Also fun fact, it costs more on the mobile apps as Meta passes the Play Store/App Store fees onto the end user.

Have you tried the options?I proceeded to checkout where it told me the price would stay that u til maj, where it would double because I have two accounts (Facebook and 2 xInstagram)

The greed of these people is astounding

Have you perhaps tried not using dogshit social media services?

What is your issue exactly here? The fact that this could go against the GDPR? If that's the case, I don't see how a third party client would help. IG would still collect info about you and show you ads. Also, you would probably get the same popup asking if you want to subscribe. Nothing would change (except that with a third party client IG would not be able to collect as much info about you as with the official app)

Anyways, you still have the option to not pay and keep using IG as before. Nothing changes.

"Your info won't be used for ads". Does that also mean that they won't collect any info about you? Theoretically, they don't have any reason to collect data anymore because you pay them.

AFAIK nothing changes. You can still turn off personalized ads in the privacy settings. I believe that nothing changed.

Wouldn't they just skirt the technicalities with just showing targeted sponsorships anyways?

instander

Hermit app make PWAs a realistic alternative

Choose wisely.

No but try MyInsta

PWA

What's that mean?

Remember that time WhatsApp (just after Facebook acquisition) introduced an annual fee you had to pay for using it, and then after everyone payed they removed it?

I didnt see it mentioned but, Ive been using Instander for some time. Its been great!