Throughout most of the world, Meta monetizes its sites using targeted ads, which means it harvests your data to focus your ads on your interests. To attempt to appease the DMA’s privacy regulations, the company lets European users subscribe to an ad-free plan for €9.99 per month , but the region is now saying this isn’t enough. Meta today became the second company charged with violating Europe’s Digital Markets Act, one week after the EU threatened Apple with a $38 billion fine. Are the tech companies ignorant of the laws ?