Re:Germany bans Facebook from handling WhatsApp data over pr...
by beefield on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @02:10AM
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That is one of the regulations that should be applied to adtech companies: Adtech companies should be required to offer a paid version of all their products with a price that covers the costs of producing the service (including a decent profit margin but not including tracking/adtech components of the free version) but with strong guarantees that customers [1] opting to pay are not tracked, not shown ads and their data is in no other way monetized or sold to third parties.
[1] as opposed to products...