Comment on If you live in the EU - you may also be faced with this Meta prompt. Info in text.

• archon@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Law opens for supplier to charge money, if necessary to support the service, which is the loophole Meta uses.

  Fuck Meta.

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  • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Honestly I don’t disagree with that bit.

    A website shouldn’t be forced to operate at a loss, which is what Facebook would be doing if they couldn’t strip mine data OR charge access to use the service.

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    • Aceticon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The Law doesn’t care if any one company’s business model is viable and, Facebook being an American company which avoids taxes like crazy, EU politicians don’t care enough about them specifically to change said Law.

      So ultimatelly and once they exhausted all legal recourse, Facebook have only two options: “comply” or “leave” (i.e. stop operating in the EU).

      Somehow I suspect that selling not-personalized adverts will still make the EU market appealing enough for Facebook to operate in.

      To me this looks like a play by Facebook to keep their higher revenue model going as long as possibly by breaking the rules and then relying on the slowness of regulators to keep going and any two-strikes policies to avoid big fines.

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    • rchive@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Shh, people don’t wanna hear that. Lol

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  • holdthecheese@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s not a loophole, it’s a key provision of the law.

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    • archon@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      True, edited.

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