Meta Plans to Charge $14 a Month for Ad-Free Instagram or Facebook::European users would have option to pay fee or agree to personalized ads, according to company’s pitch to regulators
Next they will target ad-blockers as reducing their income and trying to ban them using the shitty web drm stuff.
Their ads are natively served so ad blockers already are pretty useless for them already.
Facebook Purity completely removes all native ads and is updated each time after it breaks.
It also lets you change the font, size, if pictures load, remove shorts and people you may know, custom scripts, etc. It works for nearly every major browser.
I don’t use Facebook except to keep in touch with family, but FB Purity makes things… bearable.
Also, don’t judge the decade’s old style of the web page. The program is really over a decade old and been maintained this whole time.
Good luck with that,
Meta plans to shoot itself in the foot. FTFY
After so many rumors about Facebook charging for access, it’s hard to take this seriously.
I think this will be aimed at mainly EU members after a law banning targeted advertising (without explicit consent) comes in which will mean a reduction in ad revenue to Meta, as a result they’re hoping to make up the shortfall by charging users for an ad-free version.
I haven’t paid a dime and have had ad-free FB for years.
On the desktop, I use Ublock Origin and FB Purity.
On my phone, I use Hermit to containerize FB Mobile and that’s routed through my app and web adblocker, Adguard. I literally haven’t seen an FB ad in years with this setup. FBP also allows you to turn off pretty much every annoyance on the site(you may know, if you like this then, people who do this do…)
