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Meta to offer Facebook and Instagram users in Europe less personalized ads after pressure from regulators
Data from all of a user's previous time spent on Facebook or Instagram, which is typically combined to precisely target an individual with tailored ads, won't be used.
Meta slashes prices for ad-free Facebook and Instagram in EU, offers less personalized ads
Meta (NASDAQ:META) is reducing the price of subscriptions for no ads on Facebook and Instagram by 40% in the EU and is also letting customers in the region access the social media platforms with the option of seeing less personalized ads in an effort to ...
Meta cuts EU ad-free subscription price by 40% for Facebook and Instagram
On Tuesday, Meta announced that it is reducing the price of a monthly subscription for its ad-free tier in the EU by 40 percent, from €9.99 to €5.99 on the web and from €12.99 to €7.99 on iOS and Android. Each additional Facebook or Instagram account will be charged €4 on the web and €5 on iOS and Android.
Facebook and Instagram users in Europe can opt for less personalized ads
Facebook and Instagram users in Europe will get the option to see less personalized ads if they don’t want to pay for an ad-free subscription
In Europe, Instagram Ads Are About to Get Less Personal
The Facebook and Instagram owner faces pressure in Europe to ask before using data to target ads or train artificial intelligence.
Meta to offer less personalized ads in Europe to appease regulators
Meta Platforms plans to offer Instagram and Facebook users in Europe the option to receive "less personalized ads," the tech giant announced on Tuesday, in an effort to allay regulators' mounting concerns.
Europe’s DMA forces Meta towards ‘less personalized ads’
Meta, under legal pressure in the European Union over a binary ‘pay us or consent to ad tracking’ choice it currently offers regional users of its social networks Facebook and Instagram, is changing how its regional ad business works again.
Facebook and Instagram to Display Less Personalized Ads in the EU to Appease Regulators
Facebook and Instagram users in the EU users are getting a new option to use these platforms for free with less personalized ads, and Meta is also slashing the price of its ad-free subscription by 40%.

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Meta slashes EU Facebook and Instagram subscription fees by 40% to meet regional regulatory demands
Meta cut the price of its ad-free subscription versions of Facebook and Instagram by 40% for European Union users to ...
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Meta to Introduce Less Personalized Ads in Response to EU Pressure
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Meta cuts the price of its ad-free plan by 40 percent in a bid to sate EU regulators
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Meta beats suit over tool that lets Facebook users unfollow everything
Meta has defeated a lawsuit —for now—that attempted to invoke Section 230 protections for a third-party tool that would have ...
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South Korea fines Meta €13.8m for illegally collecting Facebook user information
South Korea’s privacy watchdog has fined social media company Meta 21.6 billion won (€13.8m) for illegally collecting ...
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South Korea fines Meta $15 million for illegally collecting information on Facebook users
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Facebook’s parent company, Meta, wins ‘Shonky’ award for not tackling scam ads
Scam ads are lucrative for scammers, but the money they steal from vulnerable people is also delivering plenty of cash to ...
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Meta now allows military agencies to access its AI software. It poses a moral dilemma for everybody who uses it
Meta will make its generative artificial intelligence (AI) models available to the United States' government, the tech giant ...