Meta being fined $100k a day for personalized ads in Norway

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Meta's behavioral ads banned in Norway on Facebook and Instagram
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100k a day is not even worth looking at for them.

100k a day for operating in a country of 5 million people. The question isn't "how much does this affect their global earnings?", it's "is it worth paying 100k a day to run personalized ads in a country with a population of Minnesota?"

which is presumably according to plan for norway, they get an easy source of extra income.

Maybe but 100k a day is not noteworthy for a country like Norway either.

It's not, but 36.5 mill a year, if spent on one or two projects that aren't otherwise receiving much funding, can still make a significant change in something.