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Meta faces permanent ban on targeted ads across Europe (stackdiary.com)
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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] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Fancy" features like group chats, or sending pictures that don't look like ass?

When every single alternative (other than RCS, ironically enough) just plain works. People just text, send each other pictures, participate in group chats, and it all just works, no matter the phone, computer, whatever, there are even just plain websites for many services.