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submitted 11 months ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

yes, and that's illegal in the EU, hence the story?

[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, the DMA only applies to digital gatekeepers, not individual new outlets

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 11 months ago

yes, but the GDPR violation remains

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world -4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

The point is it is not just facebook, it is about nearly every media page here in Europe.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 11 months ago

but you didn’t actually say that, instead you had a quadro-ellipsis that could’ve been anything

and you’ve also just restated an obvious fact/observation with no point of your own? was there one?

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 11 months ago

yes, and that’s illegal in the EU, hence the story?

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

i've seen this only on german newspapers tbh

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

heh curious, I often see it with .be/.nl/.bg ones (but from IPs very clearly not in eurozone (as in, not even under RIPE))

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 11 months ago

i've seen it at faz.net and at few other german ones but nowhere else

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 3 points 11 months ago

(.de too but you covered that)