YouTube’s ad blocking crackdown is facing a new challenge: privacy laws
by Emma Roth from The Verge - All Posts on (#6G6E9)
Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge As YouTube tightens its restrictions on ad blockers, privacy advocates in the European Union are betting that government regulations can put a stop to the crackdown.
One privacy expert, Alexander Hanff, filed a complaint in October with the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC). Hanff argues that YouTube's ad blocker detection system is a violation of privacy - a charge Google denies - and illegal under EU law. AdBlock detection scripts are spyware - there is no other way to describe them and as such it is not acceptable to deploy them without consent," Hanff tells The Verge. I consider any deployment of technology which can be used to spy on my devices is both unethical and illegal in most situations."
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