YouTubes Antiblick is illegal in the EU

eupolicy.social Alexander Hanff (@thatprivacyguy@eupolicy.social)

Today I filed a formal complaint against #YouTube with the Irish Data Protection Commissioner for their illegal deployment of #adblock detection technologies. Under Article 5(3) of 2002/58/EC YouTube are legally obligated to obtain consent before storing or accessing information already stored on a...

Cross post from https://lemmy.world/post/7027225

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Youtube's Anti-adblock is illegal in the EU

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Saw this pic floating around.
- actual source of "this pic" https://eupolicy.social/@thatprivacyguy/111261130799704016
  
  Thanks!
  The picture was shared on other social media sites, I did not see it mentioned in Lemmy or similar.
- Their obvious solution to this is make you consent to it or you can’t use YouTube.
  
  which isn't GDPR-compliant. you can't force people to accept tracking if the service doesn't require it to work.
  
  God I love GDPR
  
  Meanwhile in my country (New Zealand), privacy laws are slowly being eroded and government spying and censorship is increasing.
  I wish we had GDPR.
  
  common EU W
  could some of you big brain people try and talk to the idiots who shout "BRÜSSZEL" at every issue here (Hungary)?
  
  Does it count as tracking though? What private or personal data is it? I’d also say that it’s at the very least grey area since all they’re doing is trying to prevent people from using their service in unintended ways, ie without ads.

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