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Kühe sind toll@feddit.de to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish ·
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YouTubes Antiblick is illegal in the EU

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YouTubes Antiblick is illegal in the EU

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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.

Cross post from https://lemmy.world/post/7027225

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  • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmus.org
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    Saw this pic floating around.

    • noodle (he/him)@lemm.ee
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      actual source of “this pic” https://eupolicy.social/@thatprivacyguy/111261130799704016

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        Thanks!

        The picture was shared on other social media sites, I did not see it mentioned in Lemmy or similar.

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      Their obvious solution to this is make you consent to it or you can’t use YouTube.

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        which isn’t GDPR-compliant. you can’t force people to accept tracking if the service doesn’t require it to work.

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          God I love GDPR

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            Meanwhile in my country (New Zealand), privacy laws are slowly being eroded and government spying and censorship is increasing.
            I wish we had GDPR.

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          common EU W

          could some of you big brain people try and talk to the idiots who shout “BRÜSSZEL” at every issue here (Hungary)?

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          Does it count as tracking though? What private or personal data is it? I’d also say that it’s at the very least grey area since all they’re doing is trying to prevent people from using their service in unintended ways, ie without ads.

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    I would recommend people read the IAB ad blocker detection guide for Europe which provides a good summary of what is possible. It lays out the that depending on how the detection is done it might be defensible to rely on ToS, and to remove all risk, implement a consent banner, wall, or both.

    Which is to say, even if it was ruled that YouTube can’t rely on ToS, which I don’t think is a sure thing, they would just have a consent wall like for cookies.

  • 🐑🇸 🇭 🇪 🇪 🇵 🇱 🇪🐑@lemmy.world
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    Unfortunately it did not stop them from trying over here

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    deleted by creator

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    You can send your own complaint here:

    https://forms.dataprotection.ie/contact

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    I’m not in a position to look into it right now, but is there a part of the EULA that gives consent to detect ad blockers, and would that be good enough for the law referenced?

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      Probably not.

      A contract term that is illegal under local laws cannot be enforced.

      If the process they are using to detect adblockers breaches EU laws, they cannot use the EULA to allow them to break the law.

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      No, consent can’t be hidden in tos

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    antiblick

    We in South Africa rn?

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