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Meta being fined $100k a day for personalized ads in Norway
(techcrunch.com)
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this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2023
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Nah. I would hate to live in a country that bans personalized ads. It would be like living in the 90s watching cable TV seeing completely irrelevant tampon and baby ads as a single dude.
Personalized ads are much less annoying than the "spray-and-pray" noise we used to deal with.
personalised ads mean tracking
And how has ad tracking personally harmed you or even inconvenienced you?
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