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by londons_explore
965 days ago
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Facebook will try and get you to choose between personalized ads and payment for no ads. However, the EU requires a third option: Unpersonalized ads. Facebook can't require you to pay money to have them not analyze what you do and profile you to get more money out of ads. And everyone knows that personalized ads are worth 10x more than Unpersonalized ones. |
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But the problem is that a bunch of EU countries have been letting their local newspapers run the same "a subscription or consent to personalize ads" playbook from day 1 of GDPR, with no consequences for 5 years. And there is going to be a paper trail on that, whether it is newspapers that got this approved with their DPAs or it was "just" that the DPAs have been silently burying the user complaints rather than acting on them.
It's going to be quite hard for those DPAs to apply a different policy to Facebook.