Meta (Facebook / Instagram) to move to a “Pay for your Rights” approach

“Don’t use this data in your behaviour dataset! It’s from a paying customer

I suspect this will lead to a decrease in ad quality. Showing worse ads will result in a little green bar for increased number of paying users, and the overall quality of the newsfeed will continue it’s death spiral.

I'd pay, but 14$ a month seems a bit steep, they don't make anywhere close to that from me today.

This headline is pretty misleading. The WSJ headline is much better:

"Meta Plans to Charge $14 a Month for Ad-Free Instagram or Facebook"

Of course, the generally superior WSJ article is behind a paywall, which is funny when the topic under discussion is paywalls.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-floats-charging-14-a-month-for...

I don't use Facebook too much any more, but I pay for ad-free Twitch and I would be happy to pay for ad-free Twitter if it existed. These services don't just build themselves for free, and if you don't like their ads, doesn't it seem fair to pay for them?

This would actually make me use Facebook again, if they can get me to trust them. Their new Metaverse stuff looks interesting.