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YouTube’s ad blocking crackdown is facing a new challenge: privacy laws | Privacy advocates argue YouTube’s ad blocker restrictions violate the European Union’s online privacy laws.::YouTube is launching a “global effort” to crack down on ad blockers, but some privacy advocates in the European Union argue that it’s illegal.

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[-] jmd_akbar@aussie.zone 49 points 1 year ago

Looks like a good time to move to the EU... 😬

[-] Caradoc879@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

They're also leading the race to making encryption illegal, so...

[-] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

That's dumb and will never happen

[-] AMillionNames@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago

In the US there was a period of time where it was illegal to export encryption above a certain level, so in a way it has already happened. Dumb has never stopped governments before.

[-] crandlecan@mander.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

Friend of mine back then bought the T-shirt 😁

[-] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

How would ssl work if you ban encryption?

[-] Kissaki@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There was a proposal to have webbrowsers have to accept government certificates. Consequently they could man-in-the-middle/take over domains.

You could argue it's no different from another central authority that can issue trusted certificates. But it's government's rather than independent orgs.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 13 points 1 year ago

Yeah I hope so it would be so idiotic to try.

[-] Caradoc879@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I mean... they literally try to fuck up the internet every few years. Eventually they'll get someth8ng through.

[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 6 points 1 year ago
[-] Womble@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Are you sure about that? The UK is doing dumb stuff no doubt, but its mostly sound and fury of a dying government with no chance of actually being implemented.

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