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Rental hygiene: why we should refuse to pay

Dick Pountain is editorial fellow of PC Pro. He finds the ads on Facebook more hilarious than most of the content. Email [email protected]

y ideas for this column often come from newspaper stories, and this one was about Meta. Also known as The Corporation That Used To Be Called Facebook, or TCTUTBCF for short. TCTUTBCF has just launched ad-free, subscription-only versions of Facebook and Instagram to comply with a new EU privacy law. That law, first deployed in Norway, prohibits tech companies from

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