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> Since running a business costs money

They should charge a fair price for their product and deliver something good to customers.

No one is forcing Facebook to not charge for their service. They just can’t do it without slurping your data. If they can’t have a business without invading people’s privacy, they shouldn’t have a business. It is baffling that people still shill these practices from big corporations. It’s like saying “I can’t make money without robbing you, so it should be legal for me to rob you”.

> the only result that will satisfy organisations like noyb is that companies like Facebook disappear from the EU.

This is absolutely not true and frankly reads like an argument in bad faith. noyb’s position is clear: don’t invade people’s privacy.




There is the option to pay for Instagram (and probably also Facebook I assume, but not sure) instead of sharing your data in the EU. https://glamsham.com/world/technology/meta-faces-new-eu-comp...


As per the article (in the bold part at the top):

> This is illegal, as the GDPR clearly states that withdrawing your consent must be “as easy as” giving it.

The whole point of the article and this discussion is precisely that you can’t make privacy protections a separate “feature”.




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