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 an end user's terminal equipment unless it is strictly necessary for the provisions of the requested service.
In 2016 the EU Commission confirmed in writing that adblock detection requires consent.
I didn’t say you aren’t free to do that, but let’s just stop pretending it’s not pure entitlement that you do that, that you want youtube to be both free and ad-free.
I didn’t say you aren’t free to do that, but let’s just stop pretending it’s not pure entitlement that you do that, that you want youtube to be both free and ad-free.