• gian @lemmy.grys.it
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    1 year ago

    So because they earn money somewhere else they should do something else for free?

    Obviously not, but there is nothing to stop Google from making Youtube a paid service and drop that charade about adblockers.

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      1 year ago

      Google’s main source of income is ads across the board, so fighting adblockers is certainly in their best interest

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        1 year ago

        And users blocking all ads as long as Google is illegally tracking their online movement is in their best interest as well.

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        1 year ago

        Fine. But it need to fight by the rules.

        It is not up to discussion: Youtube want to serve video to EU user ? They need to follow EU rules. If the rule says that adblocker detection technologies (or attempt) are illegal Youtube has no really a say in it.

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          1 year ago

          But to be clear, that is not what the EU law being cited here says. It says something that may be interpreted as it. I hope that is how it gets interpreted. But that is not what it says.

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          1 year ago

          Hell yeah they should, I’m not disputing that, but there’s so many here pretending like it’s somehow unethical for Google to fight against ad blockers, and I am arguing that.

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            1 year ago

            It it not unethical what they are doing but how they are doing it. Not to mention against the law.