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Meta faces permanent ban on targeted ads across Europe (stackdiary.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Eh, it's not like we started using it because it was Meta's. They bought it when it was already popular, and switching everyone to something else is difficult.

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

Yeah, WhatsApp was ported to basically every single platform that was relevant in 2009-2010 when it launched: iOS, Android, Blackberry, Symbian, Series 40 and Windows Phone. Supporting Blackberry and Nokia mobile OS which were huge at the time as well as the new smartphone OS's was genius.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You left out webOS! Oh....

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Sure I understand the reasons why it's this way, but it doesn't make it a good idea.