Ask HN: How is YouTube not violating CFAA with aggressive anti-adblock attacks?

Re:Ask HN: How is YouTube not violating CFAA with aggressive... by brucethemoose2 on Saturday November 11, 2023 @12:42PM (#38232495)

Users have no ownership of anything YouTube. They view YouTube at the pleasure of Google, and Google can yank that away or gate it however they see fit.

So there is no extortion, because Google is not damaging anything that belonged to the user in the first place.

And this is setting aside the assumption that most users are adblocking within Google Chrome.

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Re:Ask HN: How is YouTube not violating CFAA with aggressive... by topshelf on Saturday November 11, 2023 @01:00PM (#38232708)

So, "it's ok because everything is owned by Google"? Hmm.

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Re:Ask HN: How is YouTube not violating CFAA with aggressive... by 7373737373 on Saturday November 11, 2023 @01:16PM (#38232889)

Google/Youtube doesn't owe you anything, except for the rights and obligations contracted with them. They aren't coercing you or anyone else to use their site.

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