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Meta Confirm Charging EU Users For Ad-Free Access to FB and Insta
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this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2023
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This seems like an insane price. I'm generally not opposed to ad-based services offering an optional subscription to remove ads, but holy shit. $13 / mo. for social media? Fuck the hell off.
Yea ad-based services should provide paid, ad-free alternatives imo, but this pricing is a joke
I suspect they would if it was regulated they had to (and the fines they'd get if they don't were sufficiently large). And the experience of simply not seeing ads could be worth a few bucks anyway
But yes, I don't particularly trust Meta, nor value their services enough to pay $
There was a thread on here that I now can't find that worked out that, based on monies from advertising/number of users this price structure is indeed an insane price.
I can't find any clarification on the details of this either. Is it per service? So 10/13 euros pm for FB and another 10/13 for Insta?
And if you access either via desktop and mobile do you have to pay for both?
I figure you'd pay via google pay/apple pay on mobile and FB doesn't wanna take the loss for those fees.