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by jsnell 968 days ago
Yes, it is a blatant GDPR violation.

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.