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.
It’d be better if we collectively told Google that we won’t watch its videos until it stops blocking adblockers, or stops serving ads completely, and just migrate to FOSS video hosting services or made our own websites again.
It’d be better if we collectively told Google that we won’t watch its videos until it stops blocking adblockers, or stops serving ads completely, and just migrate to FOSS video hosting services or made our own websites again.