| ▲ | aprilthird2021 15 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||
> the market demand for one you can pay for with no ads increases Didn't Meta try to offer this in the EU and they said no you have to let people use the free one without targeting any ads to them | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | Timon3 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
You're technically correct - you can't force people to give consent for targeted advertising (since it would no longer be consent). But you're absolutely allowed to show people ads if they don't want to pay for ad-free. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | prisenco 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Generally, trying to directly convert a free service to a subscription service can be much harder than starting out as a subscription service. Just look at all the resentful conspiracies about Facebook planning to charge money that would go viral back in the day. Users don't like a contract radically changing from under them, and shifting from free to paid is breaking a contract in an immediately understandable way. | |||||||||||||||||
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