Nothing more fun than having to go through some websites shitty settings to toggle everything off.
Comment on Youtube's Anti-adblock is illegal in the EU
Chefdano3@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Cool, so YouTube will start putting pop ups that require you to consent to the detection in order to watch videos. That’s what everyone did with the whole cookies thing when that was determined to be illegal without consent.
ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
DJDarren@thelemmy.club 8 months ago
I can heartily recommend Consent-O-Matic. I’d say that it’s able to clear (and reject by default) the cookie warnings on 95% of the sites I visit.
gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
ublock does it too if you enable the “annoyances” option in the settings
pathief@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I don’t know why I have not yet donated to these developers. They sure as hell deserve it. As soon as I get home they’re gonna get some moneys!
DJDarren@thelemmy.club 8 months ago
Sadly, no ublock for me on Safari, but good to know!
tch4ng@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Duckduckgo browser does it too
ddkman@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Still a curveball. Collecting your data and having to say ot to your face are not the same.
Rhllor@feddit.de 8 months ago
Would be a shame if that consent question was not saved and would be required to answer each time you open up a video.
ELI70@lemmy.run 8 months ago
which you could get around by using another frontend for youtube or just going with vlc all the way by playing the url in vlc directly.
lemme_at_it@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Firefox’s ‘Play in VLC’ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/play-in-vlc/ is brilliant for this - it does entire playlists too. It works with smpalyer, which is even better player than VLC, IMO.
harlatan@feddit.de 8 months ago
that would be illegal too, because that information is not strictly necessary for their service - they could only opt to not provide the service in the eu
JasSmith@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I don’t agree. They can reasonably argue that advertising is a requirement of their business model, so it is necessary to advertise. Therefore it is necessary for them to block access to those blocking advertising. The directive cited isn’t intended to make advertiser supported services effectively illegal in the EU. That would be a massive own goal. It’s intended to make deceptive and unnecessary data collection illegal. Nothing YouTube is doing is deceptive. They’re being very clear about their intention to advertise to non-subscribers.
ELI70@lemmy.run 8 months ago
Couldn’t that claim be countered by pointing out that they already deploy a for pay approach called youtube premium?
JasSmith@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
No, because businesses have multiple revenue streams. YouTube has a subscription offering, and a free, advertiser-supported offering. Both are part of their business model.
Sphks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
There are multiple French websites that do this. It is legal (otherwise these websites would not do this anymore, it’s been a while).
There is a popup asking you if you consent to get cookies (for advertisement). If you say “no”, it leads you to another popup with two choices :
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
That is just because the people who enforce the GDPR just haven’t come around to fining those websites.
That practice is still illegal.
Want to speed up the process? You can report those websites. The more reports the faster those get punished.
Sphks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
No, that’s not that clear for the moment.
Let me explain the French case :
Here is a French website where the CNIL explains this :
cnil.fr/…/cookie-walls-la-cnil-publie-des-premier…
MrPozor@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Same in Germany and Switzerland. I just close the site immediately when I see this kind of blackmailing. Or use 12ft.io if I absolutely want to read the article.