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.
EU wants to make sure I see ads? Screw that. Freaking capitalists. Seems the US doesn’t have a monopoly on capatalism.
Eh, no, it’s the exact opposite of that.
They’re probably talking about the anti-encrypted message regulations. EU wants to make end-to-end messengers illegal to “protect the children”.