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Meta is worried that the expected DMA ruling against Meta’s “pay or consent” model could impact its European revenue, which accounts for almost a quarter of its overall earnings, by forcing the company to allow European users to limit personalized ads on Facebook and Instagram for free.

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Facebook used to be about staying in touch with friends and family now it’s just a cesspool of Russian bots and propaganda….it drowns out your actual friends and family. Get rid of it and replace it with a decentralized platform

[–] deoliveira@feddit.org 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's about time EU fine Meta to oblivion.
If they don't comply with the law they can fuck right off and leave the EU market.
As soon as these shitty tech companies leave, the sooner EU alternatives can rise.

[–] salma@eldritch.cafe 8 points 1 day ago

@deoliveira @zaxvenz Agreed.. E.g. WhatsApp works as a public service and should be regulated as such. The reason for not leaving is a coordination problem. States are good solving such problema.

[–] XenGi@feddit.org 42 points 1 day ago

He can suck Trumps dick as hard as he wants. He will still have to comply with EU law. He could also just shutdown meta products in the EU. I would be completely fine with that.

[–] Moneyball@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

DMA should open up the ecosystem and stop the monopoly of WhatsApp!

Let’s make WhatsApp and messaging in general a service like email, where you can message/email between messaging/email clients (like I can email from Proton to a Gmail user). Why is it impossible to message from my preferred app to another app user. This is technically very easy, and safe. It just that it would ruin WhatsApp’s empire because it brakes the lock-in.

This would mean the whole Meta universe falls apart, which would be awesome as they do not give a crap about anyone’s privacy or rights. they don’t comply by the law and don’t pay taxes.

Let’s break it open!

[–] adeoxymus@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Wait his bet is that trump would fight for him? Trump? The person that notoriously cares only about himself?

[–] Canadian_anarchist@lemmy.ca 3 points 22 hours ago

For enough money, Trump will care about any cause.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

What's he gonna do, threaten tariffs? Ooooooh, scary!

[–] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 3 points 1 day ago

Yes, Trump. The guy he gave a million dollar bribe to.

[–] shekau@lemmy.today 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Whos using facebook in 2025

[–] HowAbt2morrow@futurology.today 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

WhatsApp, Instagram and other shit though.

[–] BigShammy80@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Was aber ist die Alternative zu Whatsapp? Wir müssten als Europäer ein Umschaltdatum festlegen, als Beispiel den 01.01.2026, wo wir geeint von Wahtsapp zu Signal oder was auch immer wechseln. Damit würde man ein Zeichen setzen und du hättest auch nicht das Problem, dass 2 Leute Whatsapp nutzen, 3 Threema und der Rest wieder was anderes... Whatsapp ist doch nur immer noch so groß, weil es einfach fast jeder hat...

[–] Kornblumenratte@feddit.org 0 points 4 hours ago

SMS. Nein, ernsthaft, mehrere Messenger sind wirklich kein Problem, ist nur eine Gewohnheitssache.

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You only need the critical mass. If enough people switch or at least use both the other service can succeed

[–] Ofiuco@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Mexicans; meta and xitter in general have everyone grabbed by the balls and people are fighting to not let their balls free, everything else is scary and only for criminal activity.

[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

Elon will probably tweet something about it