[charcircuit]

This isn't a user privacy breach. Recommending posts is a core functionality of social media. People understand that the site learns your interest. It's not a privacy breach if TikTok learns you like watching piano videos. Nor is it a privacy breach if X learns you like to see posts from artists.

[awesomeMilou]

The issue at hand isn't their recommender system for content, it's that they use the same recommender system for ads, which is apparently illegal in Norway.

As I understand it, it's legal to offer recommender systems for personalized content suggestions, but you cannot do the same for personalized ads.

[troupo]

> which is apparently illegal in Norway.

In EU and areas that conform with the EU laws: EEA (which Norway is part of), Switzerland etc.

[frabcus]

And for now presumably the UK, which still has GDPR in law.

[gremlinunderway]

Just because its been imposed as a "standard" for so long before anyone objected doesn't make it a core functionality of social media. Sites don't need to learn my interest by profiling me like the Stasi.

[s17n]

Just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean it’s not the core functionality. If you don’t want a personalized feed why are you using Facebook in the first place? They don’t really do anything else.