You can get privacy without paying by not using Facebook. Getting someone to host your pictures and provide you a platform to share them isn't a fundamental right.
I’d agree if Facebook wasn’t such a monopoly. Most digital social interactions are walled behind Meta products.
You want to organize a protest? Create a Facebook event. You want to keep up with news in your town or neighborhood? Join the local Facebook group. You want to chat with someone? Add them on Facebook Messenger.
By my privacy is so nobody can require me to pay for things with it. What point are you trying to make?