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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.

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A lot of the cookie notifications can’t collect data until you accept them (or follow their annoying “opt-out” workflow). If you install UBlock Origin and go to its settings > ‘Filter lists’ and enable the “EasyList - Cookie Notices” you can block a lot of cookies. If they can never nag you and you never opt in, assuming they’re following the law, you shouldn’t be tracked.

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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

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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 :

  • Change your decision and accept cookies
  • Pay for a premium service without advertisements
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That is just because the people who enforce the EDPB guidelines 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.

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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.

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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.

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They can reasonably argue that advertising is a requirement of their business model,

Couldn’t that claim be countered by pointing out that they already deploy a for pay approach called youtube premium?

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Still a curveball. Collecting your data and having to say ot to your face are not the same.

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Would be a shame if your answer to that consent question was not saved and would be required to answer each time you open up a video.

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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.

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Nothing more fun than having to go through some websites shitty settings to toggle everything off.

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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.

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ublock does it too if you enable the “block annoyances” option in the settings

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Duckduckgo browser does it too

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