Meta's Facebook and Instagram Subscription Model Breaks EU Rules

Meta's "pay or consent" advertising model is bad deal for consumers, according to an EU ruling. The European Commission announced on Monday that people who use Meta's services, such as Facebook and Instagram, don't have enough power to opt out of the company's highly personalized ad service. The quantity of data that Meta holds about people and then uses to target them with ads is too high, breaking EU rules.The Commission also criticized Meta for failing to ask its users for consent to combine their data f ...