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Meta Platforms has offered to almost halve its monthly subscription fee for Facebook and Instagram to EUR 5.99 (roughly Rs. 540) from EUR 9.99 (roughly Rs. 900), a senior Meta executive said on Tuesday, a move that aims to address concerns from privacy and antitrust regulators.The price cut follows mounting criticism from privacy activists and consumer groups about Meta's no-ads subscription service in Europe, which critics say requires users to pay a fee to ensure their privacy.Meta launched the service in November to…

Meta’s ad-free subscription started rolling out for Facebook and Instagram users in the European Union back in November 2023. We are only four months into the existence of this thing and, already, Meta is talking about cutting the price of it in half.Currently, the ad-free subscription, which removes ads from both Facebook and Instagram, costs users in the EU €9.99 per month. However, remember that the company said that it will only cover one account until March 1, 2024. If you want to remove ads from both of…

The EU on Friday used new regulatory powers to query Meta about ad-free subscriptions to Facebook and Instagram as well as claims some voices are suppressed online in a phenomenon known as "shadow banning".The European Commission made a request for information under the mammoth content law known as the Digital Services Act (DSA), which came into force last August for online giants like Meta.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIIM KozhikodeIIMK Advanced Data Science For…

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Europe's privacy enforcers should oppose Meta Platforms' no-ads subscription service launched in Europe last November because it requires users to pay a fee to ensure their privacy, a model likely to be copied by other companies, a group of 28 organisations said on Friday.The joint letter by privacy activist Max Schrems' advocacy group NOYB, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, Wikimedia Europe, the Electronic Privacy Information Centre and others to the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) comes as the EDPB prepares…

Meta introduced a paid tier to Facebook and Instagram, which allows users in Europe to opt-out of ads for a fee. According to 28 privacy watchdog organizations, the model should be banned as it might be copied by other companies, completely undermining the GDPR, and would put us in a dangerous position where people would have to pay to protect their privacy. The joint letter was signed by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, Wikimedia Europe, the Electronic Privacy Information Centre, and others, and was issued to…

Last updated: January 24th, 2024 at 16:55 UTC+01:00 Netflix is doing away with one of its ad-free subscription plans. The company announced in an earnings report that the Basic ad-free subscription will no longer be available in some countries. From the second quarter of 2024, Netflix will remove the $11.99 ad-free Basic plan starting with Canada and the UK. Other countries will follow at a later unspecified date (via The Verge). With the $11.99 ad-free Basic plan removed, customers in these countries won't have many…

This year, at least some countries will have to say goodbye to the Netflix Basic subscription tier, the last cheap(ish) way to watch Netflix without ads. While the streaming giant had already severed the $12 Basic subscription tier for new or returning subscribers, anybody who chose to keep paying their monthly tithe to keep that lower price point will find themselves forced to pay more, or else go with the cheaper ad-based tier.Netflix Passwords, ChatGPT Can’t Detect AI, and No More CoTweets | Editor PicksCanada and the…

Last July, we learned that Netflix planned to remove its cheapest ad-free plan to steer customers to either the more affordable ad-base Standard plans or one of the more expensive ad-free options still available (Standard and Premium). Some six months later, Netflix is again announcing the doom of the cheapest ad-free plan. But this time around, the Basic plan is going away for good, even if you're still a paying customer. It's not happening right now, according to Netflix. The change will impact Canada and the UK…

In its Q4 2023 earnings report from earlier today, Netflix announced that starting in Q2 2024, its cheapest ad-free "Basic" plan will be completely gone in Canada and the UK. You haven’t been able to sign up for this tier since last July, but now, even current subscribers will no longer be able to keep their 'Basic' plan, which was originally $10 or £7 per month but bumped up to $12 or £8 in October. In other words, you'll basically be forced into one of the two more expensive ad-free packages (from $16.49 or £11 per…