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Youtube's Anti-adblock is illegal in the EU(eupolicy.social)

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Demuniac@lemmy.world
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Google’s main source of income is ads across the board, so fighting adblockers is certainly in their best interest

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Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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And users blocking all ads as long as Google is illegally tracking their online movement is in their best interest as well.

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gian @lemmy.grys.it
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Fine. But it need to fight by the rules.

It is not up to discussion: Youtube want to serve video to EU user ? They need to follow EU rules. If the rule says that adblocker detection technologies (or attempt) are illegal Youtube has no really a say in it.

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wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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But to be clear, that is not what the EU law being cited here says. It says something that may be interpreted as it. I hope that is how it gets interpreted. But that is not what it says.

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Demuniac@lemmy.world
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Hell yeah they should, I’m not disputing that, but there’s so many here pretending like it’s somehow unethical for Google to fight against ad blockers, and I am arguing that.

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gian @lemmy.grys.it
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It it not unethical what they are doing but how they are doing it. Not to mention against the law.

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