Meta confirms it’s working on premium subscription for its apps

Meta plans to test exclusive features that will be incorporated in paid versions of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. It confirmed these plans to TechCrunch. But these plans are not to be confused with the ad-free subscription options that Meta introduced for Facebook and Instagram in the EU, th...

Meta's 'Pay or Consent' Approach Faces E.U. Competition Rules Scrutiny

Meta's decision to offer an ad-free subscription in the European Union E.U. has faced a new setback after regulators accused the social media behemoth of breaching the bloc's competition rules by forcing users to choose between seeing ads or paying to avoid them. The European Commission said the...

How to Get Facebook Without Ads—if It’s Available for You

Meta now offers users an ad-free option, but it’s only available in Europe for those who can afford the €10-a-month subscription...

YouTube launches “global effort” to block ad blockers

The ongoing struggle between YouTube and ad blockers is turning users into the victims. YouTube has gone all out in its fight against the use of add-ons, extensions and programs that prevent it from serving ads to viewers around the world. It started out as just a small experiment, but it looks...

Meta Launches Paid Ad-Free Subscription in Europe to Satisfy Privacy Laws

Meta on Monday announced plans to offer an ad-free option to access Facebook and Instagram for users in the European Union EU, European Economic Area EEA, and Switzerland to comply with "evolving" data protection regulations in the region. The ad-free subscription, which costs €9.99/month on the...

Meta and TikTok consider charging users for ad-free experience

According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, Meta is considering charging its European users around $14 a month if they don't agree to personalized ads on Facebook and Instagram. On mobile devices, the price for a single account would be higher because Meta would factor in commissions...

Brave Search wants to replace Google’s biased search results with yours

Brave Search, Brave Softwares privacy search engine, just turned one. To celebrate, the company says it is moving the search engine out of its beta phase to become the default search engine for all Brave browser users. Goodbye, Google? Not entirely. In May 2015, Mozilla alumni Brendan Eich and...

Happy 11th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

Today marks the 11th anniversary of KrebsOnSecurity! Thank you, Dear Readers, for your continued encouragement and support! With the ongoing disruption to life and livelihood wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic, 2020 has been a fairly horrid year by most accounts. And its perhaps fitting that this w...

Ghostery’s Making a Privacy Browser—and Ad-Free Search Engine

The tracker-blocking company will soon launch a privacy-friendly desktop browser as well...

Pirate Bay Spotted Hosting Monero Cryptocurrency Miner

A cryptocurrency miner surfaced on the world’s largest torrenting site for a day over the weekend, raising the ire of users unaware the tool was there, let alone leveraging their machine’s computing power. Users noticed the miner Friday night on The Pirate Bay, a site that acts as a treasure trov...

FireFox file stealing 0day vulnerability has been hacked“real”use, the official emergency release to fix patch-bug warning-the black bar safety net

In Russia a web site, the researchers found a Firefox serious 0day exploits program Exp code, you can steal Windows and Linux users on the computer file. This security event is forcing Mozilla to the official emergency release patch. Vulnerability description The vulnerability is caused by the...

German AD-Free Blog SQL Injection

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