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I'm surprised the EU hasn't pounced on them for GRPR infringement, maybe there's a loophole Meta's exploiting. Being total assholes ain't a crime.
This is their reaction to new privacy laws in the EU. I'm not sure I'll fly.
Maybe, but there are whispers that EU is not happy with this since it seems to violate the GDPR.
The button colours alone are in violation.
I don't know about the rest of EU, but in France for some reason it was decided that this type of choice, i.e. "pay a subscription or accept all trackers", was in the spirit of GDPR.
I think it's bullshit, but hey, it helped me choose whose services I will never use any more (really, most of those were already shit before they tried to pull that one, no big surprise here).
In Italy lots of online newspapers do the same: either you subscribe, or you accept the tracking