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Facebook and Instagram’s “pay or consent” ad model violates the DMA, says the EU (www.theverge.com)
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[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The case is basically that having a non-tracking paid tier makes no difference, the free tier if it exists can't include mandatory tracking.

So they can offer a paid tier with no tracking, but they must also offer no tracking on the free tier.

[–] tja@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

That's correct. But this is only the case because of the DMA, mit the Gdpr