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.

    • @bob_lemon@feddit.de
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      439 months ago

      Not really. The amount of people that are still on Facebook but care about data privacy should be negligible. The rest will just accept personalized ads.

      • @namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev
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        219 months 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.

        • @lorkano@lemmy.world
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          69 months 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

          • @Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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            59 months ago

            Which is still better than the majority of other countries.

            In the US they even encourage tracking…

        • @bob_lemon@feddit.de
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          59 months 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.

      • @Blackmist@feddit.uk
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        99 months ago

        It’s weird how people froth at the mouth and post “FACEBOOK DOES NOT HAVE MY PERMISSION TO SHARE PHOTOS OR MESSAGES” on their Facebook page every 3 weeks while clicking blindly on OK buttons agreeing to absolutely anything and everything that gets in the way of them seeing another banal “life hack”.