Parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads Metain Europe Facebook with InstagramOffering subscriptions that remove ads from started.
Meta Last week, in the European Union countries, a commercial-free but monthly fee was launched. Facebook with Instagram announced that they will start selling subscriptions. Subscription, which is now available as of today, can be purchased via websites. 9.99 euros per monthWhen purchasing via iOS and Android Google with Apple’s monthly due to market tax For 12.99 euros owner. This step restricts some of the data collection methods from which it generates incredibly high revenue. European Union (EU) Meta, which opposes the regulations of advertising in the EU says it accounts for 10 percent of the company’s total revenue and in this respect he does not want incomes in Europe to decrease. The company stated that it will continue to offer free access despite ad-free but paid packages. It currently does not seem very likely to generate high income from paid subscriptions that will remove ads.
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In case you missed it, Facebook transferred the data of European Union citizens to the USA in recent months. $1.3 billion fine (1.2 billion euros) was fined. The company was also ordered to stop transferring European Union citizens’ Facebook data to the United States.
The court thinks that such data transfers expose European Union citizens to privacy violations, and requests that the data remain directly in the EU countries.
This penalty seriously surpasses the previous penalty record of 746 million euros, which was imposed on Amazon over a similar privacy violation in 2021. Meta uses the data of EU citizens in specifically targeted advertising processes. transports it to the USA for use.
Stating that they would experience a serious loss of income if they stopped data transfer in the past years, Meta even made a statement saying that they would close Facebook and Instagram in Europe so that this new era would not come into effect.