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Fortune
David Meyer

Meta’s targeted ads disaster is also a problem for Google

A man in a navy suit and blue tie adjusts his glasses at a podium with a microphone (Credit: Mateusz Wlodarczyk—NurPhoto/Getty Images)

Meta will probably soon be pleading with European Facebook users to let it track their behavior across Instagram and WhatsApp—and across third-party sites that sport Facebook “like” and “share” buttons—so it can show them personalized ads.

That’s thanks to an explosive ruling yesterday in the Court of Justice of the European Union, which is the bloc’s highest court. You can find my in-depth piece on the decision here but the tl;dr:

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