YouTube's Adblock detection might break the law in the EU
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#2The irony of this being a youtube video is not lost on me.
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#3How does Youtube detect adblock anyway? Is that documented anywhere?
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#4Might*
*Actually doesn't
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#5How does Youtube detect adblock anyway? Is that documented anywhere?
It's not very hard to see when particular web requests did not happen, or particular JS did not execute.
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#6Previous discussion of this topic:
Privacy advocate challenges YouTube's ad blocking detection scripts under EU law
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#7I don't think this argument has any legs. You request a page from a web server, the server gives you back some html and some javascript, you execute the javascript which detects if you are using an adblocker.
There is no tracking involved, if you believe the js you got back is spyware you can refrain from running it and you can't watch the vid. Should every website ask for your consent to serve you javascript now?
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#8How does Youtube detect adblock anyway? Is that documented anywhere?
There was an article posted on that topic here a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38061187
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#9From the linked EU memo in the YouTube description:
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/MEMO_1...
Can users still use ad blockers?
The proposal does not regulate the use of ad blockers. Users have the freedom to install software on their devices that disables the display of advertisement. At the same time, the Commission is aware that 'free' content on the internet is often funded by advertisement revenue. Therefore, the proposal allows website providers to check if the end-user's device is able to receive their content, including advertisement, without obtaining the end-user's consent. If a website provider notes that not all content can be received by the end-user, it is up to the website provider to respond appropriately, for example by asking end-users if they use an ad-blocker and would be willing to switch it off for the respective website.