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Facebook, Instagram may cut fees by nearly 50% in scramble for DMA compliance (arstechnica.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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But EU privacy advocates like NOYB have protested Meta's plan to offer a subscription model instead of consenting to data sharing, calling it a "pay or OK model" that forces Meta users who cannot pay the fee to consent to invasive data sharing they would otherwise decline. In a statement shared with Ars, NOYB chair Max Schrems said that even if Meta reduced its fees to 1.99 euros, it would be forcing consent from 99.9 percent of users.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I think it's better than ok-only model. Facebook for example is a large network which consumes probably millions of dollars a day of power and maintenance to run. If the EU can control the data hunger of it (so they don't ask for both data and money at the same time or increase the fee to something unreasonable), "pay or ok" and even paywalls are quite viable options. People should at least be able to pay with money instead of data if they can't switch to an alternative