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There is a really simple proposal Meta can make to users now. Pay €1-10 per month for no ads or consent to ads.

Agree that data should be managed within the bounds of the law, but meta is not obligated to provide a service for free.

I would totally pay for ad free social media to avoid all the garbage.

Also, This might be one of the greatest opportunities for repricing an application in history. Meta can literally set the price arbitrarily

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The problem is that cash, unlike information, can only be spent once.

> Pay €1-10 per month for no ads or consent to ads.

This is explicitly and very clearly called out as illegal in Article 7 (4):

> 4. When assessing whether consent is freely given, utmost account shall be taken of whether, inter alia, the performance of a contract, including the provision of a service, is conditional on consent to the processing of personal data that is not necessary for the performance of that contract.

Illegal under the GDPR: consent to storing or processing personal data that is not necessary for performing a service cannot be a prerequisite to performing a service.

I think meta makes much more per customer, and few people would be willing to pay, say, E100/yr to pay for Facebook without ads

> There is a really simple proposal Meta can make to users now. Pay €1-10 per month for no ads or consent to ads.

Wouldn't most people consent to ads, without opting in to tracking? I guess in that case Meta would be in the same situation as now.

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