Europe?s Top 5 Best Beaches of 2023

The people have spoken: this list of Europe's best beaches was put together according to social media metrics calculating their popularity.
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Data analytics has become a dirty phrase in the European Union (EU) this year. Coming off the back of France?s record high fines on tech giants Google (US$120 million) and Amazon (US$42 million) for obscuring cookie tracking consent options for their users, the EU is clamping down hard on data collection policies in 2023 as the world shifts to a more and more digitised reality.Â
Businesses small and big have been capitalising on data analytics for a while now to not only get a sneak peak into the lives of their target audience, but to also find out where and what best to advertise to them, whether or not they know it. While most people pick up quite quickly on the uncannily voyeuristic effect of being tracked online, a good many of us also welcome these ?targeted ads? as ?curated? recommendations for products or services we might enjoy.Â
Social media feeds, for example, are already the result of highly curated likes and dislikes manned by powerful sorting algorithms and often the first place one would go to get ideas or recommendations for a travel itinerary. Munich-based holiday-home booking platform Holidu has picked up on the power of social media to do just that, using data already available on the net to compile a lis...
The post Europe’s Top 5 Best Beaches of 2023 appeared first on LUXUO.
Photo: Marina T/ Unsplashed
Data analytics has become a dirty phrase in the European Union (EU) this year. Coming off the back of France?s record high fines on tech giants Google (US$120 million) and Amazon (US$42 million) for obscuring cookie tracking consent options for their users, the EU is clamping down hard on data collection policies in 2023 as the world shifts to a more and more digitised reality.Â
Businesses small and big have been capitalising on data analytics for a while now to not only get a sneak peak into the lives of their target audience, but to also find out where and what best to advertise to them, whether or not they know it. While most people pick up quite quickly on the uncannily voyeuristic effect of being tracked online, a good many of us also welcome these ?targeted ads? as ?curated? recommendations for products or services we might enjoy.Â
Social media feeds, for example, are already the result of highly curated likes and dislikes manned by powerful sorting algorithms and often the first place one would go to get ideas or recommendations for a travel itinerary. Munich-based holiday-home booking platform Holidu has picked up on the power of social media to do just that, using data already available on the net to compile a lis...
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