Norway Took On Meta’s Surveillance Ads and Won::Meta has long fought Europe’s demands that it get people’s consent before using their data for targeted ads. Then a Norwegian regulator threatened fines of $100,000 per day.
The real MVP move is to ban Meta. Hopefully, it will come.
now if only the USA would get their head out of their ass when it comes to privacy
Did they really “win” though? Now users are just going to have to look at crappy irrelevant ads.
I actually like FB/Insta ads. They’re products I actually want and sometimes buy. In fact sometimes when I’m looking for a product, I’ll Google for it without incognito mode, and waiting for the ads to show up. Creepy but somehow actually delivers better results than the actual Google search!
That headline sucks lol. It’s not like there was some lengthy legal battle that they won or anything, Norway just went and made their business model illegal.
Ah yes “took”
