Meta suspends Netherlands data center due to political pushback

Re:Meta suspends Netherlands data center due to political pu... by s1artibartfast on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @11:47PM (#30863633)

I agree that the world would keep spinning without online advertising. That said, tons of products can't exist without it. This doesn't mean they arent great, but that they are obscure.

Almost nothing is essential.

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Re:Meta suspends Netherlands data center due to political pu... by olau on Thursday March 31, 2022 @03:50AM (#30864853)

I don't think most people have trouble with online advertising as such. Not even targeted advertising as long as they are in control of what's happening.

I think what people have trouble with are the other things forced on them. They don't want to be spied on, and they don't want to have loud full page videos thrown in their face.

I think it's plainly obvious that spying makes targeted advertising better, but I don't think we have proof that it can't work at all without the private-sector equivalent of the Stasi surveillance state.

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