<ul><li>Facebook's board of directors considered offering ad-free subscriptions as a response to the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the backlash against data usage.</li><li>The proposed monthly subscription would allow users to experience Facebook without ads.</li><li>The goal was to provide an advertising 'opt-out' and address the concern of users being the product if they are not paying for a service.</li><li>Instead of launching the subscription, Facebook decided to reduce the amount of data available to outside developers and later launched an ad-free subscription option only in the EU, which faced criticism from regulators.</li></ul>

Facebook considered offering an ad-free subscription after the Cambridge Analytica scandal

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