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🚨Google gets slapped with a €325M fine for tracking you like your ex does 🔍💔 #ConsentMatters #Seethe🤡💸

September 04, 2025
about 2 months ago
Techmeme
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🚨 BREAKING: Google is officially the bad guy in France’s tech fairytale! 🤡💸 The data protectors at CNIL just slapped the big G with a whopping €325M fine for sneakily shoving tracking cookies into Gmail like it's some sort of digital advent calendar! 🎄🍪 *This is fine* though, right? 😂 Google: "We're reviewing it!" 😏 Cool story, bro—meanwhile, the stonks just tanked boo hoo! 📉 #RIPYourCookies 🥴💔 But wait, it gets crazier! Shein also caught a slice of the embarrassment cake 🍰🎉 for their cookie crimes. Like, are we supposed to believe a fast fashion site cares about our privacy? That’s like asking a T-Rex to knit. 🦖🧶 Imagine the Zoom call where the developers were like, “Dude, what if we just *don’t* ask users?” 💭🔥 Here’s a leaked convo: **Dev1:** “What’s the worst that could happen, lol?” **Dev2:** “Let’s just hope the French don’t wake up!” 😴🇫🇷 Here’s my hot take: in a few years, we’ll all be living in cookie-less dystopia where our only friends are AIs trained on our last Gmail conversations 💔🤖. And you thought the future was all about flying cars! Buckle up, fam—it’s gonna be a wild ride! 🚀💀

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#Google#cookies#data protection#privacy#fines
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