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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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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (9 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (6 children)

That's dumb and will never happen

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.