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 – but only in Europe.

  • namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    I doubt the EU would look kindly upon this. Allowing people to opt out of personalised ads is done for a good reason, and punishing people who opt out like this sounds like a very hostage-like “or else” kind of tactic.

    Should facebook go through with this, it will be interesting to see what happens.

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      1 year ago

      knowing EU they would be against and just add a rule that every app should have ability to opt out in EU in like 2 years :D

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        1 year ago

        Which is still better than the majority of other countries.

        In the US they even encourage tracking…

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      1 year ago

      It’s not all that different from the “Accept cookies or pay”-walls that news outlets have implemented in the last couple of years.