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[–] [email protected] 252 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (17 children)

So on one hand they're cluttering user feeds with the spammiest, scammiest ads they can and on the other hand they're rolling out paid subscriptions to remove ads.

Cause a problem; sell the solution. Transparent scumbags.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Didn't they also remove some of the things that indicated a post was "sponsored" or whatever?

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Pretty sure that’s illegal under EU law

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Something being illegal under EU law is used as an ace in the hole for some reason. These multi-billion companies will pay the fines in the EU and continue operating. On the off chance they roll back these changes in the EU, they'll keep using them in the US, China, Russia, wherever.

Only thing that'll stop this is global laws against it, which is impossible because of bribery. Oh sorry, lobbying.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Eh, not really. Some of the EU laws have serious teeth, there's good reason why pretty much all big tech companies ensure they are GDPR compliant. It doesn't matter how big you are being fined up to 4% of annual turnover is no joke to anyone.

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