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Meta faces permanent ban on targeted ads across Europe(stackdiary.com)

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Norway has succeeded in getting the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) to make permanent and extend across Europe its ban on Meta (Facebook’s parent company) harvesting user data for targeted ads on Facebook and Instagram.

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MonkderZweite@feddit.ch
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And Google? And Alphabet?

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Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz
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And Amazon. Oh, and nowadays Microsoft has decided to join the club too.

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Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz
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Oh, that’s a good point. I just thought that I have about 200 accounts and passwords, because the internet hates me.

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fruitdealer@lemmy.world
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Pretty much, Google is the targeted ad giant, not Facebook.

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