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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] 26 points 1 year ago (12 children)

They're already starting their paid ad-free $10 a month tiers for Europe only. They'll stop showing advertising to underage people "for now". They're going to flood Europe with garbage ads and maximize subscribers that way.

[–] themurphy 16 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Hopefully they'll do that, so people would stop using their platform and move to a less money-hungry unetichal alternative.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

What would the alternative be? A genuine question. I'm not a Facebook fan at all but here in Denmark so much is on Facebook. Announcements of the local playground, cafés, events, almost everyone uses messenger. It's insane. And if it's not on FB then it's on Instagram.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago

Just don't? If I need to use Facebook to interact with something I just rather spend my time on almost anything else.

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