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I value privacy above the marginal usefulness of targeted ads. You should be free to opt-in to tracking and personalization if that's what you want. But we shouldn't all be caught in a surveillance dragnet by default.


> You should be free to opt-in to tracking and personalization if that's what you want.

Agreed. So why is the EU making that illegal? I want to be able to use products for free by opting in to personalized ads so that businesses can make enough revenue to justify having an ad-supported free version of their product.

The incompetent bureaucrats at the EU won't allow Meta to offer that.


Because Meta has proven year after year that they can't be trusted with our data. It's a sanction on their gross negligence and complete lack of morals




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