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.
  • @dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0•1 year 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.worldEnglish
      -1•1 year 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.