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Meta wants to charge EU users $14 a month if they don't agree to personalized ads on Facebook and Instagram (www.businessinsider.com)
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Meta wants to charge EU users $14 a month if they don't agree to personalized ads on Facebook and Instagram::Meta is considering offering ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram for $14 a month โ€“ but only in Europe.

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[โ€“] Bruncvik@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Not satire, and not great lengths. I treat Windows as a shell, which runs virtual machines dedicated to specific jobs. I have an office VM, gaming VM, etc. It's safer, better organised, lower maintenance, and at current levels of computer power, performant without being a drag on my computer resources.