{"id":13821,"date":"2023-09-01T21:42:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T19:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/2023\/09\/01\/meta-may-let-you-avoid-ads-on-its-apps-for-a-fee\/"},"modified":"2023-09-01T22:12:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T20:12:11","slug":"meta-may-let-you-avoid-ads-on-its-apps-for-a-fee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/2023\/09\/01\/meta-may-let-you-avoid-ads-on-its-apps-for-a-fee\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta may let you avoid ads on its apps for a fee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A large part of the social media experience is wading through advertisements. They\u2019re a blessing and a curse depending on what\u2019s being sold to you. If you don\u2019t like seeing ads while using Meta\u2019s social media platforms, then you might be able to skip them. According to The New York Times (via The Verge), Meta might let you avoid ads while using its social media platforms.<br \/>\nNow, this is a big if,\u00a0as details on this are very scarce. The report states that Meta could be planning on letting users in Europe pay a fee to stop seeing ads on Facebook and Instagram. This would be similar to how YouTube cuts the ads when you sign up for Premium.<br \/>\nMeta may let you avoid ads, but it\u2019s not likely<br \/>\nFor the time being, we don\u2019t know what the company is planning right now. There\u2019s not much information supporting this leak, and there\u2019s a chance that the company won\u2019t do it.<br \/>\nIf Meta does decide to bring this change, we expect it to stay in Europe. That sounds like a bummer to other people around the world who\u2019d happily pay to avoid seeing ads. However, there\u2019s a reason.<br \/>\nThe EU is passing some strict data regulations that compel big companies like Meta and TikTok from collecting data from their users to create targeted ads and content. This is why TikTok brought a chronological feed in Europe.<br \/>\nThis could be Meta\u2019s way of keeping the peace with the EU\u2019s regulatory body. Letting people pay to eliminate ads gives them a way out of the company\u2019s data collection vacuum.<br \/>\nMeta has been on the EU\u2019s bad side for years for how adamantly it collects its users\u2019 data. A big part of Meta\u2019s income comes from selling advertisements to users. Collecting data on its users helps its algorithm optimally target ads at people who are more likely to click on them. The more people click on the ads, the more money Meta gets.<br \/>\nAt this point, we\u2019re not sure whether Meta will go through with this. Only time will tell.The post Meta may let you avoid ads on its apps for a fee appeared first on Android Headlines.&#013;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Meta-Verified-2.jpg\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\">&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ndroidheadlines.com&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large part of the social media experience is wading through advertisements. They\u2019re a blessing and a curse depending on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":13822,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bez-kategorii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13823,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13821\/revisions\/13823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}