EU urged to stop Meta offering an ad-free subscription service in the EU

28 organisations have co-signed an open letter

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Please put a stop to the ad supported web, EU
- What alternatives are there?
  
  Only other alternatives I could think of would be just straight up harvesting and selling your customers data or paywalling your website, unless you're willing to lose profit.
I remember payin 70 cents a year for whatsapp some decade ago. They should have never been allowed to sell to facebook.
- I remember the popups asking to start paying or they will delete my account, I've always let them run out and my account got renewed for free for another year, until they made it entirely free.
  That was common practice, I genuinely don't know anyone that actually paid the fee.
  
  I did. 70 cents for a year was practically nothing compared to using SMS.
  
  And if they enforced it, it would have been a sustainable business model.
Tell them all ads have to be just a photo of Schultz. Latest product? Schultz. Newest car? Schultz. Female hygiene products? Schultz. Watch the whole ads industry burn.
- Not everyone lives in Deutschland.
  
  Doesn't matter. If all ads are a picture of Schultz, you'd install an adblocker.
- Which Schultz?

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