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Surveillance advertising in Europe: The adtech industry tracks most of what you do on the Internet. This file shows just how much.

https://netzpolitik.org/2023/surveillance-advertising-in-europe-the-adtech-industry-tracks-most-of-what-you-do-on-the-internet-this-file-shows-just-how-much/

The advertising industry has more than 650,000 labels to target people. Reading through them reveals how even the most sensitive aspects of our life are monitored. EU-based data brokers play a vital role in this system.

Surveillance advertising in Europe: The adtech industry tracks most of what you do on the Internet. This file shows just how much.

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Excellent point. I completely agree and should have perhaps put more emphasis on the fact that these practices are of course egregious and the onus should not just be on the user. There should be more public awareness of these privacy nightmares, however. Somehow people need to learn to start caring about this stuff, because if nobody uses Facebook, Facebook doesn't have the power to act the way it does.