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by charcircuit 2 days ago
>It falls under the legitimate interest exception.

What makes that a legitimate interest and not advertising?

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Because preventing crime is drastically more important to having a functioning society than being able to target advertising slightly more accurately.
But how is wanting to show targeted ads not a legitimate interest. Without such a feature a site might be unprofitable and be shut down. If something is required to operate it sounds pretty important feature.
> and you can't use those logs for other purposes like ad targeting

This part I guess

Because he said so is not a good reason.