On: I own a relatively new (2025) Samsung TV. I kept getting weirdly targeted ads

[jacquesm]

On the surface this looks like an absolutely massive GDPR violation, if they sell them like this in the EU they could get into a lot of trouble over this.

[deaux → jacquesm]

Not really, GDPR is barely enforced. Especially if they put their European HQ in Ireland as most do.

[GuestFAUniverse → deaux]

Well, time to kick some Irish nuts.

It's baffling the EU spoon fed that shit hole for ages and then they are even to lazy to collect taxes from the big ones. I hate Ireland for that.

[deaux → GuestFAUniverse]

It's horrifically ironic how the Irish are oh so proud of their supposed independent and anti-colonial when they're the primary rogue agent of US corporate interests in the EU. Near all of their economic growth over the last two decades comes from being a parasitic tax and compliance haven for US mega corporations.