• SCB@lemmy.world
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      1 year 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.

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        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.

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          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.