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Re:“This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server” by lokedhs on Thursday January 23, 2020 @03:04AM (#22125757)
This is supposedly not allowed under the GDPR, but we're going to have to wait a while before this is actually tried in court.
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Re:“This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server” by tyfon on Thursday January 23, 2020 @07:11AM (#22126890)
It's not, the consumer advocate in Norway has already released one report on the subject [1, PDF]

Pushing all this through the legal system will take some time but the watchdogs in different countries are not sitting idle.

[1] https://fil.forbrukerradet.no/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/201...

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