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If you, like me, live in the EU, Facebook is now entirely clamping down and forcing free users to make their personal data available for monetization.

Attempting to access any Facebook domain and perhaps also other meta products will redirect you to the following prompt with a choice between either accepting the monetization of your user data, or coughing up a region-dependent monthly subscription fee: base (for me ~10€) + an additional fee (~7€) for each additional facebook or instagram account you have.

Now, the hidden third option. At an initial glance, it seems like there is no other option but to click one of the buttons - however, certain links still work, and grant access to important pieces of functionality through your web browser.

If anyone has information to add regarding Facebook or Instagram, please do share it. I've only (begrudgingly) used the former up until now, but I know many others use Instagram and don't feel like giving a single cent (nor their personal info) to Meta.

  1. https://www.facebook.com/dyi - perhaps most important of all, now is a good time to make a request to download your Facebook data. Don't forget to switch to data for "all time" and "high quality" if you intend to permanently delete your account.

  2. https://www.facebook.com/your_information - here you can find and manage your information, but crucially also access Facebook messenger.

  3. The messenger app: Still hasn't prompted me with anything, though I expect that will change in the not too far future.

Currently my plan is to use messenger to inform any important friends that I intend to leave FB, and where they'll be able to reach me in the future.

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[-] logicbomb@lemmy.world 212 points 1 year ago

You need to make a choice to continue using Facebook

This reminds me of the movie War Games, when WOPR says, "The only winning strategy is not to play." The only correct choice to make here is to delete your Facebook account.

[-] Iceblade02@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Indeed, I'd like to, and hopefully will be able to. Unfortunately it is basically the universal method of communication at my campus - unless you use instagram... or snapchat.... :(

Hopefully it'll be possible to get others to make the move, but I'm not really that important in social contexts, nor are most privacy-focused folks.

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

The evil of the lizard is too great to resist. The only way to win is to deny it battle.

[-] TheFriar@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

How anyone still has a FB account I’ll never understand—or, I should say, anyone who doesn’t subscribe to the insane, “well I have nothing to hide!”/“anyone reading my information will be SO BOOORED LOLOLOL!” mindset and that actually gives 1/10000th of a shit about privacy.

[-] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

Most of my sports and social activities are organized through various Facebook groups, and I'd lead a rather boring life without it.

That's why.

[-] ItsMeSpez@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

For me it is still holding on, barely, as a messaging app. I have a few friends and groups that just refuse to message on other things and that's keeping me around. I'm tired of evangelizing better options.

[-] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago

I have friends like that. They never get a response from me.

[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 6 points 1 year ago

It pops up every once in a while for things like old classmates getting together. If I weren't on it I wouldn't know about it.

It's also useful for local events like neighborhood festivals that don't get posted on any other media.

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

You can easily counter that sentiment by asking them if they also leave their door open when they use a public toilet. Since they got "nothing to hide".

[-] TheFriar@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

“Anyone that wants to watch me pee is god be SOO BORRED LOLOL!”

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

police gets called

[-] BellaDonna@mujico.org 3 points 1 year ago

I literally had a job that distributed our schedule via a Facebook group exclusively and required an account for requesting changes or interaction about the schedule.

[-] LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago

Or stop caring about data being used for ads. Most people don't 🤷‍♂️

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