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The Slow Death of Surveillance Capitalism Has Begun | WIRED

A European Union ruling against Meta marks the beginning of the end of targeted ads

Surveillance capitalism just got a kicking. In an ultimatum, the European Union has demanded that Meta reform its approach to personalized advertising—a seemingly unremarkable regulatory ruling that could have profound consequences for a company that has grown impressively rich by, as Mark Zuckerberg once put it, running ads.  …

[This wired article sounds great, but I got a msg stating I’d used up all my free articles for the month.  Bitch, it’s damn near 7AM on the 6th of January, and I haven’t visited yr site since Dec 12th and 7th 2022.  Before that, it was once in Oct, once in Sept, once in June, twice in May, and once in March.  Never again bothering w/them.]