Comment on Youtube's Anti-adblock is illegal in the EU
admiralteal@kbin.social 11 months agoAs I understand it, detecting an adblocker is a form of fingerprinting. Fingerprinting like this is a privacy violation unless there is first a consent process.
The outcome of this will be that consent for the detecting will be added to the TOS or as a modal and failing to consent will give up access to the service. It won't change Youtube's behavior, I don't think.
ensignrick@startrek.website 11 months ago
I’m all for this protection but for the sake of argument isn’t use of the service consent to begin with? Or is that the American argument around these types of regulation?
TheGreatFox@lemm.ee 11 months ago
That’s how the corporate-written laws in the USA handle it most likely. The EU actually has some amount of consumer protection. Burying it in a 100 page terms of service document doesn’t count as consent either.
0xD@infosec.pub 11 months ago
It depends on the comtext, but generally you require explicit permission for data-related stuff which means something like a checkbox or a signature.