YouTube's Adblock detection might break the law in the EU

Re:YouTube's Adblock detection might break the law in the EU by Retr0id on Thursday November 09, 2023 @03:49PM (#38211062)

As the "cookie consent" debacle showed us, websites won't stop using JS, they'll just bombard you with consent dialogs until you click the button that makes them go away fastest, which is likely the one that involves consenting to run their JS.

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Re:YouTube's Adblock detection might break the law in the EU by mksybr on Thursday November 09, 2023 @03:57PM (#38211167)

I don't think I've ever seen a cookie consent behave that way, they just make it 1-3 extra clicks to refuse non-essential cookies; which is in violation.

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Re:YouTube's Adblock detection might break the law in the EU by mrguyorama on Thursday November 09, 2023 @04:05PM (#38211292)

A reminder that the "cookie consent debacle" is intentional. There is no requirement for a popup or any system to ask for your consent to store cookies if you simply do not store unnecessary cookies, and the carve out for "necessary" cookies is huge.

Every time you see a popup to approve cookies, it is explicitly so a company can beg you to allow them to track you for free money.

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Re:YouTube's Adblock detection might break the law in the EU by Retr0id on Thursday November 09, 2023 @05:55PM (#38212560)

Right, this about what websites will do in response to legislation, not what the legislation actually intends for them to do.

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Re:YouTube's Adblock detection might break the law in the EU by LtWorf on Friday November 10, 2023 @02:40PM (#38223518)

I'm entirely ok if the punishment for violating the law (most popups violate the law) is to shut down the entire website for 6 months.

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