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I don’t like Meta but what is the alternative? Forcing them to provide the service for free?

To me : either you consent to let us make money using your data, or you agree to pay the service with your money or you stop using the service.

Seems pretty fair

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Nope. They should make money without spying on users and abusing their privacy. If they can not do it, then they should not exist, simple as that. Basic human rights should not be taken away in no case.

It's not working like that. It's your choice what you use.

It's like alcohol, people use it even they know it's bad.

Govt is spying on you, but you can't delete account with them. With fb at least you can xD

No, that's not how it works. You can't do illegal things to someone on the basis that they consented. You can't go around killing people saying "well they were fine with it".

Similarly, Facebook can't be building profiles for people when that's illegal, whether they consent to it or not.

Newspapers in europe are allowed to do so too, why shouldn't facebook?

Neither should be allowed.

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