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Re:Apple's Power Move to Kneecap Facebook Advertising Is Wor... by breakfastduck on Friday September 24, 2021 @06:26AM (#28640596)
People are not expecting everything to be free at all. But they're making the point that if you are advertising something as 'free' when you're actually paying through the nose by having every piece of personal data extracted and sold to the highest bidder, it should not be advertised as 'free'. Becuase it isn't.

Make it free, or make it paid, or if you really must use the data harvesting model then at the very least make it very clear that it is not free because you are paying via a different means.

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Re:Apple's Power Move to Kneecap Facebook Advertising Is Wor... by wintermutestwin on Friday September 24, 2021 @10:20AM (#28642781)
Indeed. They are giving trinkets to the natives for their land. Maybe we need to educate the natives on how valuable their land actually is.
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Re:Apple's Power Move to Kneecap Facebook Advertising Is Wor... by ryan93 on Friday September 24, 2021 @10:15AM (#28642686)
How are you paying through the nose? i never click on ads so every ad service ive used for the last twenty years really has been free.
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Re:Apple's Power Move to Kneecap Facebook Advertising Is Wor... by breakfastduck on Friday September 24, 2021 @12:32PM (#28644678)
Did you just stop reading the comment at that phrase? You are paying through the data collected, regardless of whether you engage with the adverts or not.
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Re:Apple's Power Move to Kneecap Facebook Advertising Is Wor... by ryan93 on Friday September 24, 2021 @12:57PM (#28644990)
What are you paying though. Can anyone explain the consequences to me?
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