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Meta accounts of those affected flooded with ads for casinos and betting sites
We didn’t click ‘consent’ on any gambling website. So how did Facebook know where we’d been?
Gambling companies are covertly tracking visitors to their websites and sending their data to Facebook’s parent company without consent in an apparent breach of data protection laws.
The information is then being used by Facebook’s owner, Meta, to profile people as gamblers and flood them with ads for casinos and betting sites, the Observer can reveal. A hidden tracking tool embedded in dozens of UK gambling websites has been extracting visitors’ data – including details of the webpages they view and the buttons they click – and sharing it with the social media company.
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Some see ‘tipping point’ as BBC and others are priced out of high-end dramas, as others say industry must simply adapt
From the star of the Golden Globe-winning series Wolf Hall taking a major pay cut, to the BBC shelving premium TV projects due to a lack of funds, UK broadcasters are increasingly being priced out of the Netflix-fuelled golden age of big-budget drama.
Over the past year some of the industry’s biggest names have provided evidence to MPs on the culture select committee, painting a grim picture of the struggles of the UK’s public service broadcasters – such as ITV, the BBC and Channel 4 – to fund the kind of high-end TV dramas that viewers now take for granted in the streaming era.
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