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lol. Facebook's "pay or consent" model does not comply with the Digital Markets Act (ec.europa.eu)

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[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 4 months ago

everything the EU usually (tries to) stand for

only when for itself. there's a lot to (and which I do) like about the EU from the outside, but also a lot not

courts decide .. measure has to pass

yeah and the moment the floodgates are open, there will be a long tail of this shit everywhere that'll take an immensely long time to get cleaned up. and possibly may never be fully cleaned up. just like the current problem of surveillance-based advertising, which I'm not sure whether it can fully go away even if the very business model itself is made untenable - a lot of that infrastructure will die, but some will find new homes in more unsavoury purposes