Welcome to the Tech Meant Right Home for Monday, July 1st, 2024. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, Meta's turn to be accused of breaching the DMA. Sm airpods as part of an AR VR strategy, better AI leaderboards, and is the

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And we have another one. In its preliminary findings the European Union says

Metas pay or consent model breaches the DMA. But wait, the whole reason Meta offered an ad-free version of its services for the very first time ever

was because they thought that that's what the European regulators wanted, right?

Quoting Reuters.

Meta platforms was charged by EU antitrust regulators on Monday

for failing to comply with landmark tech rules as they took aim at the

U.S. Company's newly introduced pay or consent advertising model already the

target of privacy regulators and activists ire. The Tech Giant launched the No Ads subscription service for

Facebook and Instagram in Europe last November saying users who consent to be

tracked get a free service which is funded by advertising revenues or they could pay for an ad free service.

The European Commission, which acts as the EU competition enforcer said the binary choice breaches the block's digital markets

act or DMA which seeks to rein in the power of big tech as it sent its preliminary

findings to meta. It said the binary choice forces users to consent to the

combination of their personal data and fails to provide them a less personalized but

equivalent version of meta social networks. We want to empower citizens to be able to take control over their

own data and choose a less personalized ads experience, EU antitrust chief Margeth Vestager said in a statement.

Meta said, its model complied with a ruling from Europe's top court.

Subscription for no ads follows the direction of the highest court in Europe and complies

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