Meta Wants You to Pay for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp Now
15 points by tosh
by mindcrime
2 subcomments
The only way I'd pay for FB or Insta would be if one of the perks was "no ads". If that's not a feature, then it's a non-starter for me. Are there other things that would be "nice to have"? Sure. But I'm not paying for any of them AND still looking at their ads.
Are there people here who don't use WhatsApp at all? Meta products are really pissing me off, but everyone I know is on WhatsApp.
by DivingForGold
0 subcomment
Can't you still buy phone verified META accounts from hackers, ready to login ?
by fullshark
0 subcomment
Businesses or maybe public figures that use these platforms for PR i kind of get it. Everything else they described just seemed depressing to me, taking advantage of the incredibly vain.
by tencentshill
0 subcomment
If it's ad and tracking free, and they guarantee its a human-only network, sure. No double-dipping if I'm no longer the product.
by workfromspace
0 subcomment
As I've seen somewhere:
Companies pay Google/Meta to show ads, and users pay them not to see ads.
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