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Has anyone ever purchased anything they've seen on an ad on their iPhone?
I'll bet it's less than 0.000001% of users.
Bought something today actually. Looked it up a few months back and saw a great 50% of offer today so I bought it. I didn’t really think about it before just now. The difference is I was actually on their site before so it was not a 3rd party. I’m ok with this because I visited them.
 
FB is blowing smoke. they have plenty of info just from their own products to have targeted ads, etc.

even with Apples tracking blocker FB has gobs to go on and will still be selling us as a product to plenty of buyers.

FB is blowing it out of proportion, this likely will have negligible effect.
 
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Honestly, if they took privacy seriously and didn’t do ads, I’d pay. Not more than $5/mo though. I have a lot of groups for my crafting busines and few friends live in my physical area. I’ve said that for years That I’d pay - but they couldn’t do what I want.
 
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No. Nope. Not going to happen.
Charge for FB and Insta? OK, go ahead and watch your platform turn into a ghost town.

Right, don't they realize they could become the next Myspace? It will likely be slower as Facebook has a lot of older users and many people use to keep up with family. But no social media site is forever... I honestly hope they loose. It would be a good reminder that no social media site is going to last forever!
 
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They have to cover their costs somehow, businesses have to be profitable. Your ad data was their way of payment for all of the resources you use on their servers. Without it and without tracking, their profits and revenue might take a serious hit without targeted advertising.
Until Facebook there has never been a database on humanity that knows so much about so many - without tracking across apps/platforms.
Facebook knows who my friends are, relatives, interests, likes, dislikes, relationship status and sexual inclination, what video I'll watch and what I won't. It has a market place so it also knows what I search for, buy and have an interest in there too. On top of that it can snoop in messages I send on it's IM platforms (yes, plural - whatsapp)
Google would give anything to get that info, as would Amazon.
You're suggesting that they can't make billion $ profits with all that because we refuse to let them follow us around like a stalker across the entire digital world?
 
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Got along without social media for decades. Charging for services because I won’t allow them to track me will result in multitudes leaving their services behind never to return. Even just FB’s threat is objectionable..!!
 
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I have to admit I quite like it when Apple stirs the pot. If nothing else people should come out of this a little smarter and less susceptible to being taken advantage of without their knowledge.
 
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It still amazes me that people want things for free but then complain about how much free costs.
I gave you a like on that.
As someone who publishes Apps for a living I get pretty tired of those who piss and moan about not getting the app entirely free, including free of ads.
You have to pay someone somehow.
As a software engineer I don't like my labours been seen as someone else's rights and privilege to be taken for free.
The issue with Facebook though is just how much we are "being charged", and because it has been an intangible amount, that has been out of our control, they've taken all they can.
Apple has given us control to limit the cost of Facebook's freemium platform.
We now have some limits where before there were none.
 
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Typical response from Facebook. Zuck is a Man Child. His development was arrested around 17-18 years of age.

He is having a Temper Tantrum. Sadly, so many‘s lives are intertwined with the Would of Facebook that many will allow tracking from this threat.

I see allot of tough talk in here, but there are millions upon millions who simply can’t face the day without Facebook being their life.

Sad times ahead. Zuck is a Poster Child (literally) for what’s destroying the Humane Race.
 
They can suck it, I am not enabling the tracking.. FB and google are minting money on our expense.. they both can suck it not
 
The thing is is if Facebook and Instagram charged money they’d still track you everywhere and keep a profile.
 
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