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Youtube's Anti-adblock is illegal in the EU (eupolicy.social)
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[–] florge@feddit.uk 107 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (13 children)

unless it is strictly necessary for the provisions of the requested service.

YouTube could quite easily argue that ads fund their service and therefore an adblock detector would be necessary.

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Also required should be YouTube accepting liability for damage done by malicious ads or hacks injecting malware onto user systems via ad infrastructure.

[–] rchive@lemm.ee -4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why wouldn't the hacker just be liable instead?

[–] rooster_butt@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Because Google is the one trying to force consumers to raw dog the internet.

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