Although the folks at uBlock are doing an amazing job keeping the extension up to date, this news is most welcome!
>In order to present that popup YouTube needs to run a script, changed at least twice a day, to detect blocking efforts. And that script, Hanff believes, violates the EU’s ePrivacy Directive – because YouTube did not first ask for explicit consent to conduct such browser interrogation.
Nonsense.
In order to present that popup YouTube needs to run a script, changed at least twice a day, to detect blocking efforts. And that script, Hanff believes, violates the EU’s ePrivacy Directive – because YouTube did not first ask for explicit consent to conduct such browser interrogation.
Why would they need to ask for such permission?
I mean YT ads are anoying but this EU privacy obsession is insane.
A message to all who downvoted:
Take a tinfoill hat, put it on your head and go live in China. When you love opression and overregulation so much. Are some EU regulatives good? Yes. This is bs.
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uBlock was down 1 day. 1. Even then it still functioned on Firefox. I’d be less annoyed at their insistence to play ads if they where not restricting content so much.
In case anybody hasn’t heard yet and is still getting the popup:
Use Firefox as your browser (or really anything but Chrome) download UBlock Origin and navigate to Settings. From there, go to Filter Lists and click ‘Purge All’ and then ‘Update Now.’ This will give you UBlock’s latest workaround. Make sure all other adblockers are off and YouTube Enhanced is off (it has an in-built one).
Since YT updates twice a day to adjust and then UBlock updates to counter it, you might have to repeat the process occasionally. Expect a few brownouts.
*Voila.* Enjoy your ad-free YT experience and sticking it to the greedy corp and their bootlicks. Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.
Irish Data Protection Commission DO YOUR THING!
They regularly fine and slap the big IT multinationals and tend to not give a shit about the impact to Ireland’s tax by pissing off these businesses.
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Although the folks at uBlock are doing an amazing job keeping the extension up to date, this news is most welcome!
>In order to present that popup YouTube needs to run a script, changed at least twice a day, to detect blocking efforts. And that script, Hanff believes, violates the EU’s ePrivacy Directive – because YouTube did not first ask for explicit consent to conduct such browser interrogation.
Nonsense.
In order to present that popup YouTube needs to run a script, changed at least twice a day, to detect blocking efforts. And that script, Hanff believes, violates the EU’s ePrivacy Directive – because YouTube did not first ask for explicit consent to conduct such browser interrogation.
Why would they need to ask for such permission?
I mean YT ads are anoying but this EU privacy obsession is insane.
A message to all who downvoted:
Take a tinfoill hat, put it on your head and go live in China. When you love opression and overregulation so much. Are some EU regulatives good? Yes. This is bs.
[deleted]
uBlock was down 1 day. 1. Even then it still functioned on Firefox. I’d be less annoyed at their insistence to play ads if they where not restricting content so much.
In case anybody hasn’t heard yet and is still getting the popup:
Use Firefox as your browser (or really anything but Chrome) download UBlock Origin and navigate to Settings. From there, go to Filter Lists and click ‘Purge All’ and then ‘Update Now.’ This will give you UBlock’s latest workaround. Make sure all other adblockers are off and YouTube Enhanced is off (it has an in-built one).
Since YT updates twice a day to adjust and then UBlock updates to counter it, you might have to repeat the process occasionally. Expect a few brownouts.
*Voila.* Enjoy your ad-free YT experience and sticking it to the greedy corp and their bootlicks. Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.
Irish Data Protection Commission DO YOUR THING!
They regularly fine and slap the big IT multinationals and tend to not give a shit about the impact to Ireland’s tax by pissing off these businesses.