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So I got the message from instagram about either paying or using it free (at the cost personalised ads) just now. 1000010454 [https://iusearchlinux.fyi/pictrs/image/88f07573-f1ed-4d7d-8c72-225b22e19ca5.jpeg] Doesn’t this go against the GDPR? Either way, is there a FOSS alternative for instagram like piped is to youtube? It seems like a good opportunity to stop using the official app, even though it would be better to not use instagram at all (sadly not an option for me right now). Any suggestions, and if so, are there any that provide functionality for: stories, posts, dms? Those are the 3 things I use instagram for. Many thanks!

Remember that time WhatsApp (just after Facebook acquisition) introduced an annual fee you had to pay for using it, and then after everyone payed they removed it?
Wasn’t that how they financed themselves before facebook?
I might remember wrong if that’s the case

Jul 16, 2013 WhatsApp changes its profit model with an annual subscription fee of $1 after a free first year. Feb 19, 2014 Facebook, Inc. announces its acquisition of WhatsApp for US$19 billion, its largest acquisition to date. Facebook pays $4 billion in cash, $12 billion in Facebook shares, and an additional $3 billion in restricted stock units granted to WhatsApp’s founders. Jan 18, 2016 Jan Koum announces that WhatsApp will no longer charge its users a $1 annual subscription fee. There is still no clear plan for monetizing WhatsApp.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WhatsApp

So they started the subscription before the aquistion, but discontinued it two years after that.

WhatsApp - Wikipedia