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[DanteFox]

I like how the price is blatantly gouging iPhone users more. Hahaha. They know they part with their money easily.

 

[DadEggs]

subscription validation…. Thank god i dont need this to justify my value

 

[Torrent of Pork]

This mofo paid $12 for Facebook!

 

[FeralEcho]

What’s the opposite of shutupandtakemymoney.jpg ?

Fuckoffiwillkeepmymoney.jpg ?

These corporations are getting more and more shameless at trying to nickle dime their own consumers.

 

[Tieno]

Facebook makes ~$50/month per US user on average. Rest assured that paid blue check users will still be the product.

yep, they want all the money. So it'll be ads plus your subscription money for whatever features they think they can get you paying.

 

[Dirk Benedict]

Some dopes are gonna pay for this. There are too many in the world to doubt otherwise.

 

[Nobody_Important]

These tech companies basically just openly extorting businesses now with these new "pay to protect" tiers of service.


Its fucking ridiculous lol

 

[BadBurger]

lol, it begins!

To be fair, Reddit has locked most of its best features behind a paywall for years, seems the rest of social media is catching up.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

I like how the price is blatantly gouging iPhone users more. Hahaha. They know they part with their money easily.

I’m sure it’s because of iOS tax. You can still subscribe on the web for the lower price, the feature will carry over to FB app.
Many games and even DLCs are like that, just buy them in your browser.

 

[jufonuk]

Double the income stream. Sell our data. Advertise/commercials now of you want subscription services

If this becomes mandatory I'm gonna just logout my accounts.

 

[winjer]

Seeing things like this makes me happy that I deleted my facebook account 10 years ago.

 

[Nobody_Important]

Facebook and Twitter: Inflation is up? Gas prices are up? Certain foods are more expensive? The majority of the country is living paycheck to paycheck? Then by god lets charge for something that was free/didn't exist before that literally no one needs and that can only hurt our image and damage the good will we have spent years building up! Surely this is a good business decision!

 

[Aggelos]

 

[Maiden Voyage]

Thank God my last social media experienxe was Myspace. Keeping up with all this crap has to exhausting

I know all of you trapped into Social Media and no way to escape it anymore. That must suck
I wonder how many like me never did a Facebook or Social Media, and I was born in the 90's.


They should do a Study Science on us. I bet there would be some things there lol

What song did you embed in the background of your profile?

 

[Lunarorbit]

No thanks

 

[ipukespiders]

I like how the price is blatantly gouging iPhone users more. Hahaha. They know they part with their money easily.

They should make IOS users have green check mark, instead.

 

[Goalus]

I like how the price is blatantly gouging iPhone users more. Hahaha. They know they part with their money easily.

It is a great way to expose Apple's greed. More popular services should do exactly that.

Make Apple users pay double the price via native app - always. Every iPhone has a web browser, so Apple users can easily avoid playing double the price unless they are too stupid.

 

[supernova8]

I'm probably not important enough for someone to want impersonate me, plus I have no intention of giving Facebook money knowing they have spent the last 10+ years (or however long I've been on there) collecting and selling my data to the highest bidder. They can fuck right off.

I'm surprised how many people seem to have opted to pay for the blue tick on Twitter. Do people really give that much of a shit?

 

[MayauMiao]

Seems like a good way to tell Facebook know that I am not verified therefore whatever info they have left of me will likely to be fake to their algorithm.

 

[GymWolf]

I wish i could pay 30 a month to have a blue checkmark on my gaf account

Don't give evilore more ideas.

 

[GymWolf]

Could be a good idea, I've noticed a lot more catfishing/spam profiles that keep trying to add and message about crypto.

 

[nightmare-slain]

Thought it was a joke at first.

To be honest, I'm all for it if it pushes people to abandon Facebook. In fact, I think Zuck should force everyone to pay for Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

I despise Facebook and the sooner the world is rid of it the better.

 

[NikuNashi]

I wish i could pay 30 a month to have a blue checkmark on my gaf account

I just want a header.

Whose cock do I have to nibble around here?.

 

[NiiloPielinen]

Thank God my last social media experienxe was Myspace. Keeping up with all this crap has to exhausting

I know all of you trapped into Social Media and no way to escape it anymore. That must suck
I wonder how many like me never did a Facebook or Social Media, and I was born in the 90's.


They should do a Study Science on us. I bet there would be some things there lol

Deep under the sea Myspace Tom waits dreaming. When the stars are right He will emerge and feast.

 

[Lasha]

Thought it was a joke at first.

To be honest, I'm all for it if it pushes people to abandon Facebook. In fact, I think Zuck should force everyone to pay for Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

I despise Facebook and the sooner the world is rid of it the better.

We used to pay for Whatsapp. It was originally like a dollar per year.

 

[xrnzaaas]

What if I want a lgbqwerty badge.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

What if I want a lgbqwerty badge.

Era is that way buddy.

 

[BlackTron]

I wish i could pay 30 a month to have a blue checkmark on my gaf account

Don't give evilore more ideas.

Don't be ridiculous. GAF would never so blatantly take advantage of its users just for some stupid blue checkmark without even a shred of innovation.

Our checkmark will be orange, come on.

 

[GymWolf]

Don't be ridiculous. GAF would never so blatantly take advantage of its users just for some stupid blue checkmark without even a shred of innovation.

Our checkmark will be orange, come on.

I do like the orange color...

 

[Spukc]

Don't be ridiculous. GAF would never so blatantly take advantage of its users just for some stupid blue checkmark without even a shred of innovation.

Our checkmark will be orange, come on.

Sold

 

[blastprocessor]

Man was hoping it would boost the stock price. Oh well.

 

[eddie4]

So... pay to get "verified" and still get ads and tracking?. What a deal.

 

[Talkin Hawkin]

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Facebook and Twitter: Inflation is up? Gas prices are up? Certain foods are more expensive? The majority of the country is living paycheck to paycheck? Then by god lets charge for something that was free/didn't exist before that literally no one needs and that can only hurt our image and damage the good will we have spent years building up! Surely this is a good business decision!

And thats why so many people are broke. They buy dumb ass shit. The only accounts I can see on Twitter or Meta doing blue verified badges are celebs, politicians and companies. Along with maybe their CEO if it's a company where that person is a figurehead kind of role (ie. Richard Branson kind of guy). Paying $100-150/yr to ensure people know that account is the official page can be important.

Why the hell noname Bobby Broke Ass and Sketchy Sally want to waste their time and money on this who knows.

Out of all the Meta profiles, if they can get 1M annual subs, that's a cool $144M per year. And all they did was add a blue badge. Crazy. But social media addicts will probably eat it up.

 

[Wildebeest]

So get this, someone steals your personal information, sells it to everyone who will pay, including foreign tyrants and other criminals, and then for the privilege of being stolen from, they ask you to pay 12 bucks a month, so they can verify the information they are stealing is genuine. And people hand the money over without having their arms broken!

 

[Maiden Voyage]

So... pay to get "verified" and still get ads and tracking?. What a deal.

Gotta fund Oculus somehow I suppose.

 

[DR3AM]

A lot of influencers want to have the blue verification checkmark next to their name. Easy money for Meta. I expect a lot more ads on those accounts.

 

[Blade2.0]

You know what they say, if youre not paying for these services, then you aren't the customer, you are the product. I would rather these services had always been subscription based rather than turning into massive spying operations for every element of our lives.

But now you get to pay for a checkmark and be spied on.

 

[RainblowDash462]

EviLore NeoGAF verified when? Bring out the blue!

 

[DeepEnigma]

They should be paying you with how much data they harvest and sell on ya.

 

[Clear]

They should be paying you with how much data they harvest and sell on ya.

I know LOL. This is hilarious!

Its weird to think that back in the day one of the key selling points about the internet was that you could be anonymous. Nowadays they are not only encouraging people to give all of that anonymity way, but actually charging people for it!

Strange days indeed.