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Facebook and Instagram’s “pay or consent” ad model violates the DMA, says the EU (www.theverge.com)

submitted 4 months ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It has taken almost a year to figure this out when it already was blatantly obvious when they implemented it. With that price tag, it was more blackmail

[–] derpgon@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I mean, it is shitty, but nobody forces anyone to participate. Half the people on Facebook noping the fuck out completely and deleteing their accounts would make everyone's life easier and happier

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Oh yeah! I dropped out of all META platforms back in November when they implemented the Pay or OK requirement.

I can still have an opinion on it though. I am not against ads. I had just opted out of targeted ads. With the Pay or OK though they forced me to have to accept targeted ads.

Even if i paid the crazy amount they were asking (in my case the equivalent of 3 Netflix subs) they could still track me and suggest content , even from commercial accounts. So i opted out of META instead