I had turned targeted ads off, on Facebook and Instagram. I still got ads but they were not targeted based on my data. I could live with that
Today I got a popup requiring me to pick an option of either accepting targeted ads or pay the equivalent of €13/$14 for an addfree experience across all meta platforms.
It’s seemingly due to the Norwegian ban on targeted ads which recently was expanded to the EEC countries. Law professors here in Norway say it looks like it’s illegal and commentators liken it to extortion that will unproportionally affect low-income people.
So that’s something.
Nobody’s talking about the federated Friendica as an alternative though.
The issue with Friendica, compared to Lemmy/Mastodon/etc, is that you’d need your friends and communities to also move to Friendica, which hardly happens
Are you thinking about Diaspora? Friendica is AP, you can subscribe to Lemmy communities from Friendica.
TIL about Friendica