Comment on Meta cancelled climate change ads, then cancelled a local newspaper that reported about the ads, then a blogger who reported on the paper's cancellation, and now has escalated to blocking all of LGF for posting the blogger's story

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mozz@mbin.grits.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

IDK; I tried it from VPN from Europe was what I meant by "when it's accessed from the EU." I honestly have no explanation why I didn't see the prompt; my best guess is that either the geolocation or VPN fucked up, or that my Adblocker removed a unified package that also included the prompt.

To search for ad settings I tried clicking AdChoices from the bottom navigation (from Europe) and it took me to a page that lectured me about how I should turn off my third-party cookie blocking, and when I tried from a different browser it succeeded (without having prompted me about cookies) and then announced that I had the opportunity to customize my ads experience from 111 different companies:

... and so on. I was also entertained by its summary of privacy policy within the State of California.

I stand by my assessment of relative cuntiness of Variety compared with LGF's saying hey we do Google Ads and here's how to disable tracking if you want, fuck EU's cookie laws and their weird little checkbox, have a good one.

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