Ad free Facebook and Instagram is officially on. I’m trying to stay open minded but honestly it’s too expensive especially with this sneaky account center rule unless you’re in an unfortunate position where you need to spend a lot of time on these platforms.
More on official blog post: https://about.fb.com/news/2023/10/facebook-and-instagram-to-offer-subscription-for-no-ads-in-europe/
Absolutely, the $10/month is just to disable ads, like if you are running a free uBlock. Meta will still collect all your data from every cookies/sites and sell all your info to 3rd party for $$$.
They’ve already been found guilty of illegally tracking users in the EU and are facing insanely high fines - this is supposed to be their response to that - it’s supposed to be a viable business model that doesn’t involve tracking.
If they’re still tracking people even after doing something about it - there will be zero leniency given.