I suspect they would if it was regulated they had to (and the fines they’d get if they don’t were sufficiently large).
And the experience of simply not seeing ads could be worth a few bucks anyway
But yes, I don’t particularly trust Meta, nor value their services enough to pay $
I semi forced my partner to move to Telegram instead of Facebook Messenger to chat with me, but aside from that I kinda just accepted their own decisions
More for security than privacy, I also set up a Bitwarden account for them so they stopped ussing the same password on everything lol
Yea I get that from some people. I just say “well this app is better and more secure/privacy oriented. It’s most of what I use so if you want faster responses that’s what I’d recommend”
I try to encourage basically everyone I’m friends with to move to Telegram or Signal to talk to me. If they don’t, they get slower responses 🤷 I don’t open it regularly
Remind myself of the 80/20 idea (or something like that)
20% of the effort gets you 80% there. Easy things like using Firefox instead of Chrome, Signal/Telegram instead of FB messenger/Whatsapp, managing cookies and opting out of tracking options is already doing a lot more than most people.
I basically forced everyone to message me on Signal & Telegram cause fuck Meta (people my age in Canada desperately wants to talk on Instagram for some reason)
I main Firefox but, want a Chromium browser for Android/Windows that I can use occasionally.
What are your preferred choices?
Edit: okay I tested out a lot of your suggestions and found Vivaldi to by my favourite so far :) thanks y'all
I never found one I liked as much tbh