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Meta relents to EU, allows unlinking of Facebook and Instagram accounts (arstechnica.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[โ€“] [email protected] 95 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The EU really is a force to be reckoned with. Long live the EU.

[โ€“] [email protected] 45 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But I thought they were leaving ๐Ÿ˜ญ

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why? They just doubled their user tracking.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

I don't think that's how it works. Your location doesn't change based on the app you have installed/open/etc. Neither do your purchasing habbits. It would be a waste of storage and compute to collect, process and store the same data twice. And even if the engineers haven't bothered - at the end of the day it's still a single set of data.