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>$100.000 each day For clarity & comment skimmers: TFA uses $100,000 in the subheading and beyond. Some European countries use `.` as a thousands separator, so it's not "a hundred dollars a day".
No one uses 3 digits to represent cents, so nobody is going to interpret this as a hundred dollars a day.
So 36M USD per year? I wonder how that stacks against the profits they make from that market.
Think of it as a starting point. I'm all for applying network algorithms to fines like this: if you don't back off we'll double the fine. Every time it is levied. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_backoff And if the company can't pay then the execs are on the hook, everybody with a C-level title or a board seat. I would happily wager this would get even the largest entities into compliance within days, weeks…
Basically the EU(or even Norway) is way to big a market for advertisements for the industry to just ignore so sooner of later adtech will fold and play nice.
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It's downright insulting. Norway is a country not a mere here today gone tomorrow company.
Some companies lasted longer than some countries
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Nobody should use punctuation as thousands separator regardless of which side you are on.
Commas are punctuation too... so what are you proposing?
100000
My personal preference would be: 100000 (monetary symbol), but, I also understand that others might prefer the symbol before the numeric (i.e. $100000), even though you would not say "Dollars one hundred thousand" in English.
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They can block FB in their country.
They don't have to, is the thing. If Facebook can't operate as a business in their country, then they can't collect advertising revenue there, can't run FB marketplace, etc. Facebook has always had the option to not operate as a business in a country, that they do is because it's profitable to do so.
And this fine will increase if Facebook dont comply, it's been done before to even bigger targets like Microsoft(back when windows/office was still relevant) so just being big wont save Facebook here.
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Commas are punctuation too... so what are you proposing?
Could use a space or an underscore: 100 000 100_000
Personally I would like some means of breaking up units of triplets that could be used universally. It's frustrating that there isn't a standard across the globe for such crucial means of expression. It wasn't until fairly recently that I learned that the comma wasn't the universal standard.
>$100.000 each day For clarity & comment skimmers: TFA uses $100,000 in the subheading and beyond. Some European countries use `.` as a thousands separator, so it's not "a hundred dollars a day".
No one uses 3 digits to represent cents, so nobody is going to interpret this as a hundred dollars a day.
0, 2, 3, 4 are all in use.