> Meta, however, took the view that it could just add random elements to the contract (such as personalized advertisement), to avoid a yes/no consent option for users.<p>The most frustrating part of this entire thing is that the intent of the law is pretty clear and yet they are trying stuff like this.
Just to make me understand this:<p>This is about storing data in the form of "Facebook user XYZ looked at a page about travel to Antarctica" and the reason Facebook wants to store such data is to show them travel offers when they read their Facebook feed?<p>If so, can I download this data about me? Is there a way to download everything Facebook stores about me and then I will see all the websites and pages I visited that Facebook knows about?
Huh? Meta tried to argue that it was legally obligated to serve ads to its users and this allows them to move any consent requirement for tracking and online advertisement into terms and conditions ... Whoah.<p>The highly paid for legal contortionists who made the argument probably knew it was doomed from the start. They are just paid to delay inevitable by dragging it trough all courts.
There is a really simple proposal Meta can make to users now. Pay €1-10 per month for no ads or consent to ads.<p>Agree that data should be managed within the bounds of the law, but meta is not obligated to provide a service for free.<p>I would totally pay for ad free social media to avoid all the garbage.<p>Also, This might be one of the greatest opportunities for repricing an application in history. Meta can literally set the price arbitrarily
Could FB simply say: this service costs money to run, either you pay for it or you watch ads, if you don't want to pay or watch ads press here to delete your account. Then, to the people that stay, yes or no to targeted ads.<p>This won't kill Instagram and Facebook but will kill WhatsApp unless it's paid for by the business accounts and the ads on the other platforms.
FWIW - The English version of the press release:<p><a href="https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2023-07/cp230113en.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/202...</a>