The saying goes if you’re not the customer, you’re the product. Now, you’re both. Every big social media app is testing subscriptions. It's a business model that comes with a perverse incentive. Just like airlines, if you make life worse, more people will pay.
  • @SCB@lemmy.world
    English
    -3•9 months ago

    If you read the article, you’ll note that paid subscriptions are for ad-free services, which means your data is worthless, which means it won’t be sold.

    The entire point of these models is to comply with EU rules on data harvesting.

    • @dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0•9 months ago

      Lol, it will still be sold. They are still tracking your attention span and clicks. I can already think of two or three correlation tests to sell to advertisers based on that information alone.

      • @SCB@lemmy.world
        English
        -1•9 months ago

        Except this change is occurring because of EU rules that don’t allow them to gather that data.

        Those rules are dumb, sure, but this is the workaround - and personally it’s a workaround that I think is quite untenable. Social media succeeds because it is free.