• AnonTwo@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    So is this basically saying youtube isn’t allowed to detect an adblocker?

    I’m not sure I really follow why that specifically is something they’re policing.

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      1 year ago

      As I understand it, detecting an adblocker is a form of fingerprinting. Fingerprinting like this is a privacy violation unless there is first a consent process.

      The outcome of this will be that consent for the detecting will be added to the TOS or as a modal and failing to consent will give up access to the service. It won’t change Youtube’s behavior, I don’t think. But it could result in users being able to opt out of the anti-adblock… just that it also might be opting out of all of YouTube when they do it.