Yeap, this is not legal and just round two in the fight META vs EU. The pop-up banner forcing you to opt-in or pay is Zucks way of giving europeans the middle finger. This will likely have to be reversed, but Meta speculates on users giving them the permission to continue collecting data before it happens. It will hurt meta more than europeans. Just do nothing for a while and try not using the apps until they remove the banner. They can’t risk losing engagement for too long because of advertisers.
It’s 140GB on console and >200GB on PC… You can’t actually uninstall Warzone if you have CoD HQ installed, so MW3‘s total size is technically just 90 GB plus other garbage. Even if all you want to install is the campaign, you still need to download 100+ GB of other data first.
This has happened in the US too with the patriot act (having all your electronic communication monitored to protect us citizens from terrorist attacks, following 9/11) and we saw how that played out with the prism program. You can’t be opposed to protecting people can you?
Now the EU is trying to couple a law to which you would normally be opposed to (having all your electronic communication scanned to protect children from being abused, following the raids on EU child trafficking rings), with a topic like child protection to which you can’t possibly be opposed to without sounding like a complete psycho-pervert.
It’s just more expensive to make a new substitute and stop selling the toxic shit you still have in storage with no way of getting rid of it. So regulation has to lead the way…otherwise there is no incentive to stop. How about letting THEM come up with a way of removing the chemicals they already put into the environment first, before giving them the next free ticket to pollute.