• DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    There should be a legal requirement to call a targeted advertisement a targeted advertisement. Being allowed to call them “recommendations” only makes these assholes feel emboldened to push ads where people wouldn’t normally accept them. Microsoft is pulling that dirty trick as well.

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      Yeah in Europe I’d send this to my local data authorities and the ombudsman