{"id":14991,"date":"2024-07-01T12:38:56","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T10:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/01\/meta-breaches-digital-rules-by-charging-users-for-ad-free-social-networks-eu-claims\/"},"modified":"2024-07-01T12:38:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T10:38:56","slug":"meta-breaches-digital-rules-by-charging-users-for-ad-free-social-networks-eu-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/01\/meta-breaches-digital-rules-by-charging-users-for-ad-free-social-networks-eu-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta breaches digital rules by charging users for ad-free social networks, EU claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European Commission says \u2018pay or consent\u2019 model does not comply with Digital Markets Act<\/p>\n<p>Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s Meta has breached the EU\u2019s new digital laws with an advertising model that charges users for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/oct\/30\/meta-facebook-instagram-europe-pay-ad-free\">ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram<\/a>, according to the European Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Meta launched a \u201cpay or consent\u201d model last year in an effort to comply with the bloc\u2019s data privacy rules, where users pay a monthly fee for an ad-free version of Facebook or Instagram that does not use their personal data for advertising purposes. Users who do not pay have, as part of the signing up process for the platforms, consented to their data being used to tailor personalised adverts that appear in their social media feeds.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/article\/2024\/jul\/01\/meta-facebook-instagram-eu-digital-markets-act\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ae86b30e4c58aecc9beb99ecbe5e39332639cb22\/0_174_5500_3300\/master\/5500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=0baa12d7aba38dd38990b6524ed866f3\" title=\"Meta breaches digital rules by charging users for ad-free social networks, EU claims\" \/>European Commission says \u2018pay or consent\u2019 model does not comply with Digital Markets Act<br \/>\nMark Zuckerberg\u2019s Meta has breached the EU\u2019s new digital laws with an advertising model that charges users for ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram, according to the European Commission.<br \/>\nMeta launched a \u201cpay or consent\u201d model last year in an effort to comply with the bloc\u2019s data privacy rules, where users pay a monthly fee for an ad-free version of Facebook or Instagram that does not use their personal data for advertising purposes. Users who do not pay have, as part of the signing up process for the platforms, consented to their data being used to tailor personalised adverts that appear in their social media feeds. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Commission says \u2018pay or consent\u2019 model does not comply with Digital Markets Act Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s Meta has breached the EU\u2019s new digital laws with an advertising model that charges users for ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram, according to the European Commission. Meta launched a \u201cpay or consent\u201d model last year in an effort &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/01\/meta-breaches-digital-rules-by-charging-users-for-ad-free-social-networks-eu-claims\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meta breaches digital rules by charging users for ad-free social networks, EU claims<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14991"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}