‘Meta is out of options’: EU regulators reject its privacy fee for Facebook and Instagram

arguing that it’s not real consent if the only alternative is shelling out yet another monthly subscription fee

Very true, and hopefully many other verdicts will follow, like "It’s not real consent if....this or that.

This dark pattern has started to spread everywhere already.

What's really unhinged is the amount of resources invested into gaslighting Meta does. https://about.fb.com/news/2024/01/investing-in-privacy/

They even have a "Chief Privacy Officer". They have brainwashed entire departments into believing that Meta actually cares about privacy, it's so terrifying. I wonder if people working there realize that, or they have simply fell for the gaslighting.

Please pull out of EU, it will be so much easier to convince more of my family to use signal.

Leaving the EU could be an option.

Say one decides to pay...what guarantees do I get that my data won't be used or that I won't get targeted?

This is great!

I wonder how many € I can rent an EU citizenship for ;-)

Good news, that’s one point where the EU takes good decisions. Sadly, fight against privacy in terms of anti money laundering rules and similar

Is cutting his hair an option? If he needs, I have a device that uses gravity to chop things...

Max Schrems, the Austrian activist lawyer whose 13-year legal crusade against Meta is what gradually removed those options

I wonder, does anyone know how would one go about acomplishing something like this? One of major websites here in Czech, and a major search engine, has started doing exactly the same thing - pay or agree. And I really don't like that. Are there organizations you can contact, or do you have to have the resources to just sue them?

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It looks like Meta’s strategy of charging European Facebook and Instagram users, for the privilege of not being tracked for ad-targeting purposes, ain’t gonna fly.

I'm in the US and also don't care about Facebook and Instagram, but if I could pay a privacy fee to Alphabet and not be logged and data-mined, I'd do that.

I don't know if there's enough people who would for that to be a viable market, but I'd be there.

If there is still one option, is not it still an option? It is out of choices, but not out of options, right?