Except you don’t get your privacy back. AFAIK the subscription model is only to remove ads.
That would be pointless. They introduced this in response to the EU not considering just mentioning the tracking in the T&C. You need to give informed and freely given consent to tracking. You cannot say “you can only access this service if you consent to being tracked”, you have to give an alternative. This paid subscription is meant as the alternative.
So the goal of this subscription is not to get people to subscribe, but to give people a tracking-free option so they can keep tracking them with the free tier.
It’s not buying privacy though. It seems to be just buying the removal of targeted advertisements, which could mean just the display of these adverts. All the tracking could still be happening. Is there any wording associated with this that indicates Facebook does not plan to track users who pay?
My main question, that I admittedly haven’t been arsed to look for an answer to, is; would subscribers still have the same algorithms as non-subscribers controlling what ‘content is surfaced’ to them? Since it’s been kinda optimised for engagement and advertising for sometime… If that makes sense…
Paying… for… FB or Instagram… loool
It would be ok if Facebook wasn’t a toxic platform and if your data privacy was guaranteed.
