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Meta faces permanent ban on targeted ads across Europe (stackdiary.com)
submitted 1 year ago by skilledtothegills to c/technology
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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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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

And Google? And Alphabet?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And Amazon. Oh, and nowadays Microsoft has decided to join the club too.

[–] fruitdealer 0 points 1 year ago

Pretty much, Google is the targeted ad giant, not Facebook.