Meta Allows EU Users to Access Meta Apps Separately to Comply With Regulations, A month after cross-app talks between Instagram and Messenger were disabled, Meta made its statement.
Users in the European Union, European Economic Area, and Switzerland will be able to disable information sharing across all of Facebook’s parent company Meta’s apps. Residents in these areas will therefore be able to use Facebook and Instagram independently, even if they are linked on the network. In the meantime, Meta is going to alter the way messaging functions on its Marketplace platform and enable users to create a Messenger account that is separate from their Facebook account.
Users in the EU, EEA, and Switzerland who have already linked their Facebook and Instagram accounts can keep using them or unlink them “so that their information is no longer used across accounts,” according to a detailed post from the company outlining the changes being made to comply with regulations — the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) — that Meta and other businesses must comply with.
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A month after cross-app talks between Instagram and Messenger were disabled, Meta made its statement. Three years after CEO Mark Zuckerberg declared that Meta would enable cross-platform communication, the corporation restricted messaging to individual platforms. In December, it also enabled compatibility for Messenger’s end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) chats.
The firm is also altering the Messenger experience for customers in these regions; in addition to allowing you to talk using your Facebook account, Meta now offers the option to create a new Messenger account that functions separately from your current one. Though certain functions won’t function as intended, you will still be able to call and send messages to your contacts.
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For instance, if the seller’s and buyer’s accounts are unlinked, the Messenger features for Marketplace that facilitate seller-buyer chats will be replaced with an email alternative. According to the firm, customers who unlink their accounts from Facebook Gaming will also lose access to multiplayer features and personalized recommendations.
Similar to Meta’s optional ad-free membership for Instagram and Facebook, which debuted two months ago, users in the EU, EEA, and Switzerland will be the only ones able to get these updates. If laws akin to the DMA are implemented, the corporation might also introduce the same features to other areas, enabling customers in additional nations to manage their accounts independently.
