Meta wants to charge EU users $14 a month if they don’t agree to personalized ads on Facebook and Instagram::Meta is considering offering ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram for $14 a month – but only in Europe.

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      1 year ago

      And so is the rest is the rest of the world, especially India and South America, afaik. God, I wish we could get rid of it once and for all.

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        1 year ago

        Tell Apple to get rid of their BS iMessage policys then. Apple are the reason iMessage doesn’t work on Android, not Google.

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      1 year ago

      I’m not addicted. I hate it. It’s a horrible chat app. I especially hate the lack of threads (or at least pinned posts) in groups, I have to scroll through pages of garbage to see that important announcement. I also hate that it’s linked to my phone. If I want to use it on my computer, because I hate typing on phones, it needs my phone to be always connected.

      I’m stuck with it because everyone else is using it.

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        1 year ago

        You mean you keep using this thing despite hating it? Now I’ve known a few addicts in my time and that is pretty much the definition…

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          1 year ago

          I know quite a few oxygen addicts then…

          Jokes aside, saying that WhatsApp is an addiction is like saying that Americans are addicted to SMS, Imessage or whatever they use down there

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        1 year ago

        What is the appeal of viber? it has ads and micro transactions. A lot of people use it, but it is my least favorite.