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Re:WhatsApp will progressively kill features until users acc... by KingOfCoders on Saturday May 08, 2021 @02:12AM (#27084399)
It does. Though this is a gray area, do they really need the consent for this feature to work? I guess this is their argumentation - which is allowed.

Data protection agencies opinion is you do not need ad consent to view news (media companies argued that way), but it's open for other features.

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Re:WhatsApp will progressively kill features until users acc... by choeger on Sunday May 09, 2021 @06:23AM (#27094801)
Data protection agencies don't get to interpret the GDPR, courts do.

The GDPR does not contain any clause that someone has to provide a service for free without any kind of tracking. That would basically eliminate Facebook and Google as valid business models. There was such a stipulation in discussion for the e-privacy directive but it was legally half-baked and IIRC it is out of discussion by now.

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