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Ah yeah the kind of hullabaloo that makes everyone accept cookies on every single website ;)

You're missing the point/s

1. What they're doing is illegal. It has to stop immediately and they have to be held accountable
2. What they're doing is immoral and every barrier we can put up against it is a valid pursuit
3. Restricting Google to data held remotely is a good barrier. They shouldn't be able to help themselves to users local data, and it's something that most people can understand: the data that is physically within your system is yours alone. They would have to get permission from each user to transfer that data, which is right.
4. This legal route commits to personal permissions and is a step to maintaining user data within the country of origin. Far from being a "dead end", it's the foundation and beginnings of a sensible policy on data ownership. This far, no further.

This whole thread is a whole lot of hullabaloo about complaining about legality about the way YouTube is running ad block detection, and framing it as though it makes the entire concept of ad block detection illegal.

Nope, the point is that, at the moment, Google seems to look where it should not look to know if a user has an adblocker and they don't ask for permission.

Let put it in another way: Google need to have my permission to look into my device.

But it doesn’t stop Google from refusing to serve you video until you watch ads.

Which is fine as long as Google can decide that I am using an adblocker without violating any law, which is pretty hard.

Of course Google could decide that it is better to leave EU and it law that protect the users, but is it a smart move from a company point of view ?

The guy really exudes “don’t you know who I am?” energy. Which is a shame since it detracts from the discussion.

The same EU that threaten E2EE?

Don't be an asshole and blame regular people for shit like this. This is because of big tech

The only thing still preventing mayhem along with California

that would be illegal too, because that information is not strictly necessary for their service - they could only opt to not provide the service in the eu

Nothing more fun than having to go through some websites shitty settings to toggle everything off.

Do you consent to our use of intrusive browser detection, anti-cheat, rootkit usage and invasive brain implants to bombard you with ads?

Yes | Also yes but more annoying to click through

that's not how it is to be interpreted.
it means something like in order for google maps to show you your position they NEED to access your device's gps service, otherwise maps by design can not display your position.

Adblock detection has literally already been ruled on though (it needs consent). I'm sure there are nuances above my understanding, but it's not that simple.

I am not paying for Premium.

It was pathetic for them to hide away this button with its statistics. Honestly it's an valuable tool.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/return-youtube-dislikes/

Because they updated their filters so you have to clear the old cached filters

It about device detection and privacy. Websites in the EU aren't allowed to scan your hardware or software without your permission, to protect the users privacy. Adblockers fall under this.