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EU urged to stop Meta offering an ad-free subscription service in the EU (www.techradar.com)

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

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Please put a stop to the ad supported web, EU

[–] Weslee 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What alternatives are there?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Weslee 6 points 7 months ago

Only thing I could think of is something like adding an extra 10 or 20 to your internet bill and your isp automatically sends money to the sites you visit based on times visited, but it would require SO much work, and so many problems to solve.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I’d be fine with either paywalls and donations. Ad support is nice theoretically, but we’ve seen that we can’t be trusted not to turn that into a hellhole of popups and broken experiences to maximise revenue.