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Tell HN: I can report Facebook's new subscription does not work

11 points by venv ↗ HN
Being a very infrequent Facebook user, I logged in after being told a friend was organizing a party through Facebook events. Was greeted with a choice to subscribe or opt-in to ads. Chose to try the subscription (billing starts in March). After trying multiple cards, I was unable to actually subscribe. So much for choice.

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Raed667
I can report that you can go to https://www.facebook.com/settings without needing to pick the free/subscription option and deactivate your account.
cookiengineer
I can report that I am still waiting for my GDPR mandated data checkout from metacompliance.com after filing it every month over again, which they happily ignore.

I think their web form just lands in /dev/null and nobody bothers to do anything. Time to get a lawyer and report them, I guess...

Mrirazak1
Question is are they going to still harvest data? No point paying if they will still do exactly the same thing?
HenryBemis
They will definitely continue to harvest (and process/sell) data. The only thing that stops is displaying ads.
dotcoma
Doesn’t Ublock Origin do the trick for free?

I thought it did; I quit Facebook and I’m very happy I did.

Raed667
Unless they make a big deal out of it, assume that Facebook will always harvest as much data as they can.

I would also assume that it would be more complex to create exceptions in the data ingestion/retention pipelines, than in the ad display ones.

brianhorakh
I stopped using Facebook many years ago, now with hindsight that was One of the very best self-care decisions I've ever made in my life.
drstewart
I'm guessing most of your stress wasn't from Facebook, but years of running up a huge debt from your failed startup while not getting sufficient exercise or nutrition.
flowzai
Recently facebook get lots of complain for this problem and bugs