Meta Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp subscriptions

“Did I mention that their products are mediocre at best?”

“Meta rolling out subscription models for their free products, is a step in the right direction.”

“Absolutely reasonable as I said.”

“I'm not sure it's a panacea, as since you said meta will just take your money and track you.”

“Paying these shitbirds will not cause them to invest in the product.”

“Their offer for subscribers are nothing but beads and sequins.”

“the award of most stupid company that somehow is still alive goes to Meta!”

“Like no ads? that's usually the #1 you pay for and no mention of that.”

“There is such a deep lack of trust from years of bad deeds that I doubt anything positive will come out of this.”

“make the free version terrible and you force people to get the paid service”

“it's maybe more positive of a change than that. But just slightly.”

“subtly harvesting data from and even shoveling ads into paid subscriptions actually doesn't make consumers immediately and massively cancel their subs”

“They're some silly premium features like custom stickers and themes. I don't see anything about removing ads.”

“if you take away even read-only API access to services”

“if you're willing to pay, you're an even more valuable product”

“This sort of looks like a subscription for influencers, organisation and "power users"”

“they're trying to charge a fee for the pleasure of giving them your data to sell”

“This is like asking us to tip them in addition to all the horrible things they're doing either way.”

“Plus now they even have your credit information for better ad targeting”

“Absolutely reasonable to replace with a subscription.”

“they're still getting ads, and they are still collecting your data”

“not putting every single notification, 'share my...' and 'show me...' option on separate toggles”

“they'll harvest and sell your data AND take your money”

“Only tech bros could possibly think making the default subscription level so bad that it would drive revenue.”

“I wouldn’t describe that as quite pricey for a platform with that large a library.”

“they can still sell your data for other services who will give you ads”

“If I'm paying and still getting unwanted ads...then I am no longer going to be paying.”

“Meta isn't going to stop harvesting all your information just because you pay for a subscription”

“they will keep doing what they are doing while being paid because your data is their business model”

“Can't believe they rolled out all these different plans and left out the one thing a lot of people would buy.”

“Adding subscriptions is Meta's way of convincing you to volunteer for more expensive, more lucrative ad placements”

“These new paid tiers will be slowly enshitified just like most modern paid plans.”

“The peace of mind knowing that my every move isn't tracked”

“this does give a meaningful voice to their customers who pay”

“People who pay subscriptions are exactly the sort of people you want to advertise to the most”

“they also know there is much more money to extract from you”

“Is it just a way to monetize dying platforms before they inevitably become worthless?”

“It's insane that those subscriptions don't remove ads.”

“Seems absolutely unhinged. I don't know who'd pay to doomscroll AI-generated slop and fake news.”

“Please don’t do this Meta. It seems like social media really is in a downward spiral.”