Norway has succeeded in getting the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) to make permanent and extend across Europe its ban on Meta (Facebook’s parent company) harvesting user data for targeted ads on Facebook and Instagram.

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    8 months ago

    Better than the US, at least in Europe you are not forced to buy a specific device just to be able to communicate.

    Who knows, if Facebook gets severely limited by these laws, maybe we’ll all switch to Signal or something.

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      8 months ago

      I use Android and I exchange text messages with iPhone users all the time. They don’t use iMessage with me because my friends aren’t assholes.

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      8 months ago

      You’re not forced to buy a specific device there. They all text each other fine. You just don’t get fancy iMessage features if you’re on Android.

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        8 months ago

        “Fancy” features like group chats, or sending pictures that don’t look like ass?

        When every single alternative (other than RCS, ironically enough) just plain works. People just text, send each other pictures, participate in group chats, and it all just works, no matter the phone, computer, whatever, there are even just plain websites for many services.

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        8 months ago

        You get all those features, just not with iPhone snobs who refuse to use acting but iMessage.