OK, I have a facebook account for access to three groups. That's it - I don't use it for anything else, like status updates, keeping in touch with family, stalking ex-girlfriends or swallowing dubious "facts" whole and parroting them with authority to others; or whatever people mainly use it for. However, I went to log in the other day and was greeting with some shite about changes in UK laws meaning I can choose to subscribe to Facebook and see no ads or use it free and see ads. This sounds like a serious case of BS - because it appears, to me at least, like the free option means full ads and handing over every detail about for them to do with as they please. None of the usual, essential cookies only, as far as I can see. Surely this is a breach of previous laws re: data use consent? It's no great loss to me - the three groups I am subbed to are not something I really need, so I'll just ditch it all, but it seems like more shady practise. Not that it should surprise us any more.
'Agree to cookies/ads or pay' with no 'how about no?' option was deemed to be GDPR complaint in germany iirc and the nanosecond that happened a lot of sites moved to that model.
Yup i got that too and didn't agree to anything, still cant get onto Facebook on my PC but suddenly i can with my phone. I utterly hate FB, they banned my wife over a misunderstanding and there's no way to speak to an actual person about it to have sorted it out. Its just littered with trolls nowadays anyway. Like David I just use it for messenger, videos, a small bunch of groups and market place, marketplace being the main loss as I can use you tube shorts for vids and whatsapp to chat otherwise.
If that comes up when I visit a site, I close the tab. As for the farcebook, apart from my name and email address, I used to register with, my personal details are entirely false and, the email is as hidden as options allow. I use fb only to look at a few feeds relevant to my local area and, don't bother looking at my main feed so, any adverts there go unseen.
Whenever I see that, I use uBlock Origin's element hiding helper and have it treat the paywall as an ad which it blocks. If they have only applied a blur filter to the article behind it, uBlock takes care of that too. Otherwise yeah it's a nope out.
