Malware Bytes is reporting that Meta is being sued because the company is saying that this is their way to get consent to not show you targeted ads by paying for it. By not complying with the consent law, they are fined $100,000 a day.
Maybe the opening paragraph isn’t making much sense, but then again, Meta in my opinion of reading the article seems not to be following the law.
However, organizations concerned about our privacy say that by doing this, Meta has changed the user’s choices from “yes or no” to “pay or okay.”
They would be making 5.6 billion dollars a year instead of the 120.18 billion.
But if I were in the EU, I would tell them right now that they didn’t ask me if I want targeted ads or not. Forcing me to pay, just like Twitter is so you can get more features most don’t care about doesn’t sit well with me.
The price you’ll be paying for an “ad free” experience is going to be higher if you use Mobile, and will be rising in 2024, says the article.
Their argument is that they’re doing the world a favor by giving you behavioral advertising or targeted advertising. Its a service to give me ads?
I’m proud that the JRN does not track its users in any way. What the server does is known. It logs your activity across pages, yet people like me o the maintainer can use it to diagnose an issue if we need to. But I refuse to put ads on my page, and the advertisement page is written where people can choose to click a link of something they’re interested in, and not some visual, annoying, and possibly problematic ads. I don’t even know what those ads are and can’t vouch for them.
“Every business starts with an idea, and being able to share that idea through personalized ads is a game changer for small businesses.”
Really? A privacy group called None of your business disagrees. I didn’t give you permission to track me, so please leave me alone. Here’s something else.
“Not only is the cost unacceptable, but industry numbers suggest that only 3 percent of people want to be tracked – while more than 99 percent decide against a payment when faced with a privacy fee.”
Above the last quote, here’s another which I wanted to highlight. It says:
“Fundamental rights cannot be for sale. Are we going to pay for the right to vote or the right to free speech next? This would mean that only the rich can enjoy these rights, at a time when many people are struggling to make ends meet. Introducing this idea in the area of your right to data protection is a major shift. We would fight this up and down the courts.”
None of your business filed a complaint with the Australian authority on November 28th.
To read the full article coming out of Malware Bytes, please read Meta sued over forcing users to pay to stop tracking which has links to other things too.
This is going to get very interesting.
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