Youtube's AdBlock detection might break the law in the EU

👉 https://isp.page/news/privacy-advocate-challenges-youtubes-ad-blocking-detection/
👉 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/21/technology/personaltech/websites-blocking-ad-blockers.html
👉 https://www.theregister.com/2016/04/23/anti_ad_blockers_face_legal_challenges/
👉 https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/MEMO_17_17
👉 https://twitter.com/alexanderhanff

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00:00 - Intro
00:18 - What is YouTube doing to detect adblockers?
00:38 - The man going after adblock detectors
01:13 - Youtube's Terms of Service is being violated!!
01:29 - Did you actually accept, deny, or even read a terms of service to view a youtube video though?
01:51 - Youtube doesn't prompt you for consent before running code to detect adblockers
02:19 - Alexander Hanff claims this is illegal
03:18 - Alexander Hanff calls these scripts spyware
03:35 - How you do this is what matters IMO
03:50 - The innocent way to detect adblock on a client computer
04:57 - The nefarious way to detect adblock on a client computer
05:59 - This conflicts with an EU directive from January 2017
07:03 - How do you solve this contradiction? I don't know...
07:47 - Fondness for Mozilla 1.0.1
10:34 - Louis Rossmann sells out by exploiting his cat for money and sales(but this is ok, he has cost me $1000s in stuff he destroys in the time I have had him as my kitty)