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Tech Giants Withholding Products Because EU Regulation like GDPR (www.axios.com)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Does this mean we dont get to be tracked, data mined, ad-bombed, and exploited while our teens dont get depressed and sick from "social" media?

Well, if thats the price we pay, thats the price we pay... :)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Does this mean we dont get to be tracked, data mined, ad-bombed, and exploited while our teens dont get depressed and sick from "social" media?

Nah you still get all of that but in a shitter product.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

May I introduce you to our friend and saviour, the GDPR regulations?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Nah, you can build algorithms that make depressed teenagers with little to no tracking. Especially if they can train said algorithms from data they already have from the rest of the world.