Privacy campaigner Alexander Hanff claims that YouTube’s new ad blocker detection is illegal under European law, and he’s taking the fight to the European Commission.
On November 6, German Pirate Party MEP Patrick Breyer addressed Hanff’s claim to the European Commission, formally requesting a legal position as to whether “protection of information stored on the device (Article 5(3) ePR) also cover information as to whether the user’s device hides or blocks certain page elements, or whether ad-blocking software is used on the device” and—critically—if this kind of detection is “absolutely necessary to provide a service such as YouTube.”
YouTube began rolling out ad block detection
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