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"Facebook and Instagram have a subscription service in most of Europe, where users can pay monthly so that they don't get ads on the platform." As far as I can
by beardyw 2y ago
"Facebook and Instagram have a subscription service in most of Europe, where users can pay monthly so that they don't get ads on the platform."
As far as I can see that doesn't alter anything in this judgement.
- 4ndrewl 2y agoIt doesn't, but afaik the reason they introduced the pricing model was that they fell foul of EU data laws. They also issued some PR this morning suggesting this was something they were looking at for the UK, so perhaps it's indicative of their direction of travel.
- bee_rider 2y agoIt probably didn’t influence the judgement much (if at all). But the relevance to the story is in the next paragraph and pretty straightforward > The Meta spokesperson said the company was "exploring the option" of offering a similar service to UK users and would "share further information in due course."