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Meta wants to charge EU users $14 a month if they don't agree to personalized ads on Facebook and Instagram

www.businessinsider.com 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.

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.

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Meta wants to charge EU users $14/month if they don't agree to personalized ads

www.businessinsider.com /meta-charges-eu-users-for-ad-free-instagram-and-facebook-2023-10

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Please do it. It will die so fast
- 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.
  
  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.
  
  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
  
  Which is still better than the majority of other countries.
  In the US they even encourage tracking...
  
  It's not all that different from the "Accept cookies or pay"-walls that news outlets have implemented in the last couple of years.
  
  Those aren't legal in the EU. But hard to enforce for lots of sites
  
  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".

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