European alternatives to Meta Ads

Meta's advertising system across Facebook and Instagram, powered by deep behavioural profiling. Its tracking has drawn record GDPR fines, and it runs entirely on US infrastructure.

Company information about Meta Ads
Company
Meta Platforms, Inc.
Headquarters
Menlo Park, United States
Founded
2007
Data jurisdiction
United States
Ownership
Publicly traded
GDPR
No
Open source
No
Infrastructure
Own infrastructure

Why people switch away from Meta Ads

Subject to US CLOUD ActProfit-driven (public markets)Proprietary softwareNot covered by GDPR

European alternatives to Meta Ads

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France 83 · Strongly European

Paris-headquartered commerce-media and retargeting platform. A large, publicly traded European adtech alternative to the Google and Meta ad duopoly.

Enterprise · from Custom Own infrastructure EU

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Why avoid United States-owned services?

CLOUD Act

Forces US companies to hand over data stored anywhere in the world upon government request, including data on European servers.

FISA Section 702

Authorises mass surveillance of non-US persons using data held by US tech platforms, without a warrant or notification.

GDPR vs US law conflict

EU courts have repeatedly found that US surveillance law conflicts with European fundamental rights. Schrems I and II both invalidated EU-US data transfer agreements.

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