A paid plan for more than 1,500 yen per month will be announced that will allow you to erase ads on Facebook and Instagram

Meta has announced a paid plan that allows you to remove ads from both Facebook and Instagram. The paid plan is scheduled to be available in Europe from November 2023, and will cost 9.99 euros (approximately 1,580 yen) per month.

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Facebook and Instagram insert ads in your timeline that are unrelated to the users you follow. Meta, the operating company of both SNS, earns revenue from advertising, and Meta collects user information in order to display 'advertisements that match the user's interests' on the timeline and maximize advertising revenue. collected and analyzed.

Meta sent the information collected to analyze user information to a server in the United States, but in Europe, Meta sending personal information to the United States violates the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Discussions are underway that it may do so, and in May 2023, EU authorities imposed a fine of 1.2 billion euros (approximately 19 billion yen) on Meta.

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GDPR requires companies to obtain consent from users before storing or using their information. For this reason, Meta has introduced a ``model that requests user consent'' in Europe from August 2023. Furthermore, as a measure to expand the options of European users, it was announced that a paid ad removal plan will be introduced from November 2023.

The price of the ad removal plan is 9.99 euros (approximately 1,580 yen) per month if you subscribe via the web application, and 12.99 euros (approximately 2,060 yen) per month if you subscribe via the iOS or Android app. The ad removal plan will be applied to both Facebook and Instagram accounts with a single purchase, and from March 1, 2024, each additional account will cost 6 euros (approximately 950 yen) per month for the web app and 8 euros per month for the smartphone app. An additional fee of EUR (approximately 1,270 yen) will be charged.

It is not clear whether the ad removal plan will be offered in regions other than Europe.