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Has anyone actually been prosecuted for this? I can imagine that in Germany they might follow up on this but elsewhere in Europe I see plenty of sites not infor

• kuschku 10y ago
  Actually, yes. And, yes, it was in Germany. And it was in fact for using Facebook tracking pixels and "like" buttons by large newspapers. Which is why every newspaper then switched to "2-click Like", where the Facebook button is first shown in grey, you click it, it loads the actual button, and you can like. It was also recently confirmed in a court case from this year (15'000€ fine for using it): http://www.verbraucherzentrale.nrw/mediabig/239773A.pdf http://www.verbraucherzentrale.nrw/mediabig/239773A.pdf