That’s nice dear

Sticks it on fridge door, tousles hair

Leak

“Advert” is the word btw

It takes just slightly longer to work out how to bypass paywalls as it does to type “pAyWaLl”

The EU fined online giant Meta almost 800 million euros on Thursday for breaching antitrust rules by giving users of its Facebook social network automatic access to classified ads service Facebook Marketplace.

The European Commission said the US tech titan also abused its dominant position by imposing unfair trading conditions on other online classified ads service providers that advertise on its platforms.

“This is illegal under EU antitrust rules. Meta must now stop this behaviour,” the bloc’s competition chief, Margrethe Vestager, said in a statement.

Meta said it would appeal, alleging the decision ignored “the realities of the thriving European market for online classified listing services.

“Facebook users can choose whether or not to engage with Marketplace, and many don’t. The reality is that people use Facebook Marketplace because they want to, not because they have to,” the firm said in a statement.

Among the 10 largest antitrust fines ever imposed by the 27-nation European Union, it is the latest in a string of hefty penalties slapped on Big Tech companies in recent years by the commission, the regulator for the bloc. ‘Abusive practices’

Detailing what it termed “abusive practices” by Meta, the commission said that because Facebook Marketplace was tied to Facebook, the former enjoyed a “substantial distribution advantage which competitors cannot match.”

“All Facebook users automatically have access and get regularly exposed to Facebook Marketplace whether they want it or not,” it said.

Additionally Meta imposed unfair conditions on competitors in the classified ads service who advertised on Facebook and Instagram, the commission said.

This allowed it to “use ads-related data generated by other advertisers for the sole benefit of Facebook Marketplace”, it said.

Meta, which also owns WhatsApp and Instagram, contended it did not “use advertisers’ data for this purpose” and has “built systems and controls to ensure that”.

“It is disappointing that the Commission has chosen to take regulatory action against a free and innovative service built to meet consumer demand,” the company said.

Meta’s dominant position in the market for personal social networks comes with a special responsibility not to abuse it by restricting competition, according to the EU. ‘Duration and gravity’

The commission opened formal proceedings into possible anticompetitive conduct by Facebook in June 2021, communicating its concerns to Meta in December 2022 — and receiving the firm’s response in June 2023.

The EU fined the company 797.72 million euros ($840 million), a sum the commission said took into account the “duration and gravity of the infringement”, as well as the turnover of Meta and Facebook Marketplace.

Meta’s total revenue last year stood at around $135 billion.

The European commissions has had several run-ins with Meta as part of a broader clampdown on abusive Big Tech practices.

Its policy arsenal has been beefed up over the past two years with major twin laws, the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act, that carry massive financial penalties in the event of infringements.

In July the EU accused Meta of breaching the digital rules with its new “pay or consent” system. It meant users had to pay to avoid data collection, or agree to share their data with Facebook and Instagram to keep using the platforms for free.

Bowing to pressure from EU regulators, Meta announced this week it was offering non-paying users in the bloc the option of receiving less targeted ads, as well as cutting subscription rates for entirely ad-free services.

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I’m still using windows and I’ve nothing to complain about; I know how to get it to work perfectly for me.

Go to the Linux community and 70% of the questions are “how do I get this to work?”

You definitely have a lot to complain about, and yous do, frequently. Most adults don’t have time to fanny about trying to get a program to work with their OS, so they’re happy with Mac or Windows

If Linux was everyday-usable they’d have waaaaaay more than 4% market share by now, it’s been over two decades

Yeah I loved “It’s Like That”

I reckon we’ll get another year out of it, and I also think within a year, there will be plenty of workarounds to make W11 usable for moderately tech savvy people like us

The loudest voices shouting about how bad W11 is are always Linux users, especially on Lemmy

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The original Sniper Ghost Warrior games were really chill. More about stealth than action

Has anyone actually found a good use for having any LLM function handy on your phone?

I was curious about how much you could actually read in the 11 minutes that this YouTube drivel wasted on getting a point across

I tested my reading speed and it was 346 wpm, so I’m guessing the average is about 300 because I read a lot

3300 words is an absolute fuckton of information.

I’ve no idea why anyone would waste 11 minutes listening to about two minutes worth of information

Yes you can raise chickens

Which? - the UK consumer advice group, did an investigation into this and found that 92% of items they checked had been cheaper within the previous year than they were on Black Friday

I bought it, I really like it. It’s simple to set up.

Only glitch is sometimes it mutes an audiobook for a second when a notification comes in, even though you don’t hear the notification

Betteridge’s Law of Headlines

I don’t have that problem because I use Windows snort

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Surely to Christ you’ve got better things to do with your time?!?

I’ve never needed Google Pay because my banking apps are really good

I can’t think of any reason not to update them