grumpy_cat@thelemmy.clubBanned from community to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 13 days ago
grumpy_cat@thelemmy.clubBanned from community to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 13 days ago
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Probably gonna get hate for this but like… Yeah if I had the option to pay for more things and not be tracked and dataharvested, I would. The infrastructure and support isn’t free. What’s really shit is when they do both… The prices should be lower, like way way way lower, but middlemen all want their cuts for transactions so you’ll almost never see subs for under a dollar.
Just because you pay a subscription to avoid ads does not mean your data is not still being harvested and sold. The big exception is now they have a payment method tied to a specific person not just an ad profile.
I mean I get where you’re coming from, but imo we shouldn’t have to pay to not be tracked and data harvested. You can run ads and have them not be creepy stalky, it’s only greed to maxmize profits that pushes companies to go for the stalker option.
I don’t use tiktok for reasons that would be preaching to the choir here, but pardon me for asking… Isn’t everything on TikTok an ad? Like they’re either telling people to buy a book, put sugary syrup in water, buy organising plastic containers, selling slime, selling ice cube trays that ironically make them no longer cubes, selling makeup, clothing hauls, generating affiliate revenue, asking people to enlist… I could go on. It’s just ads all the way down? What would someone see if they removed all the #ad posts?
My tiktok fyp is mostly cooking videos, animals, skits and music stuff. If they’re trying to advertise something they’re doing a terrible job.
Or an extremely good one.
How about no tiktok at all. It’s all slop.
Everything is slop these days, I’m actively out here touching grass and have never felt better
Smug and proud that TikTok has never earned a dime from me
Neither from me. At least not voluntarily or knowingly.
Wow, you now have the option to pay to have no ads? Something that’s been pretty standard for like the last 10 years
Join the premium brain rot plan today! Addictively doom scroll through ai slop ad free for less than 5 quid a month!
TBH, I think 50% of my wife’s TT usage is finding cheap neat things on TT ads.
That’s a good price 🤷♂️
Ah yes I love companies breaking GDPR by forcing you to pay for a subscription or gate content…
How does that break GDPR.
They even allowed to charge money if you want no ad related cookies.
Most webpages are like pay 1€/month or accept the cookies. Totally legal and within law. Another instance of EU institutions being lobbied into supporting business above people.
It’s not clear yet whether its within the law. There is multiple complaints regarding this being filed across the eu, and noyb is actively campaigning for this to be investigated. The argument is that gdpr demands the user being given a real choice. However, most sites pick the monthly fee at 4-5 €, which seems low but is actually very offputting and deliberately chosen such that most people accept cookies instead. A strong indicator for this is that a paid subscription nets the site about 3€ a month, while ad revenue per user per month is only about 0,25 €. So you would think they could offer a lot lower subscription fees. The fact that they won’t means they really really want to track you and dark oattern you into accepting.
To be fair, one thing often overlooked is these things don’t run in rainbows and unicorn dust. Especially a video platform. $$. To expect it completely free is kind of crazy.
I’d be willing to devote taxes to social media without ads and featuring a non-malevolent algorithm. If it allowed people to communicate with each other like Twitter or Facebook, it would be a service to the benefit of the public.
Once upon a time, at least here in the states, we believed in a government that served the public good.
