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Re:How A Young Woman Followed Two Hackers' Lies to Her Death by 4ad on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @04:01PM (#19089786)
Doesn't GDPR forbid this shit? https://i.imgur.com/MG5jIrZ.png
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Re:How A Young Woman Followed Two Hackers' Lies to Her Death by danso on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @04:21PM (#19089949)
Forbid what exactly? The storage and use of user data? That would forbid virtually every web service.
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Re:How A Young Woman Followed Two Hackers' Lies to Her Death by danso on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @05:00PM (#19090357)
Again, can you provide specifics. I clicked through the HN link to see a debate over what GDPR contains and whether that applies to FB’s implementation. I’m not from the EU so I’m not able to see the interaction flow based on a screenshot. What happens when you select “Reject All”, for instance?
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Re:How A Young Woman Followed Two Hackers' Lies to Her Death by pluma on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @05:49AM (#19094149)
You can't disable the "required" ones, even though they're obviously not all technically required to serve the content.
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Re:How A Young Woman Followed Two Hackers' Lies to Her Death by Nursie on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @02:21AM (#19093358)
Yeah it surprised me too that "Ad selection" was listed as a required thing. Seems wrong.
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Re:How A Young Woman Followed Two Hackers' Lies to Her Death by Semaphor on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @05:31AM (#19094082)
It does. It's just that so far no smaller sites have been brought to court (smaller as in not FAANG sized). I assume these things will change a few years down the line.

For those downvoting OP, could you please provide reasoning? GDPR is pretty clear that you need to be able to not opt into tracking.

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