Under Article 5(3) of 2002/58/EC YouTube are legally obligated to obtain consent before storing or accessing information already stored on an end user’s terminal equipment unless it is strictly necessary for the provisions of the requested service.

In 2016 the EU Commission confirmed in writing that adblock detection requires consent.

The EU stepped in, they have to remove it in Europe. Not sure about America though…

HOW DARE YOU! I am anti-skub.

My friend went to a Weezer concert recently, he said there weren’t any ads pushed.

You make a good point actually.

Why is everyone in the comments section oversimplifying this complex issue? Great reminder that that’s what politics is now, blaming one side and naming the other side pure.

Thanks appel, very cool.

I just made a post similar to this, a bit better editing. But my joke wasn’t as funny.

They’re begging for a direct competitor.

A paid adblocker/ video downloader is worth 20$ a month for 5 people? Every feature in premium has a third party tool alternative you could easily use anyway.

They had a system in place that put more ads on users depending on how many used an ad blocker. When the users got used to it, YouTube realized they could push it on everyone and make more money. They’d survive as a business even if that wasn’t the case anyway, Google owns them.

ArseAssassin would never. How dare you accuse ArseAssassin of such things.

How exactly is this a shower thought? (I agree by the way, but how?)

No long form video content platform better than YT yet, I’ll be switching as soon as someone can make something better.

Why shouldn’t Microsoft be held accountable for everything illegal people do on Windows? Why shouldn’t pharmacists be held responsible for prescription drug abuse? Why shouldn’t a social media website be held accountable for users infringing copyright? If something is used illegally and the person who made it is held accountable, that doesn’t really make sense even if you dislike the thing. For example, I hate YouTube, but it doesn’t make sense for them to be held accountable for users posting copyright infringing content.

Just upgrade back to Windows 10.

It’s as simple as this: -Politician does something illegal -Politician is caught -Politician tells their party members they didn’t do -Party members believe politician because they’re of the same party -Politician now has millions of supporters vouching for them not to get convicted -Politician doesn’t get convicted

It’s happened before, it’s happening now, it’ll happen again.

Fact is, they have good reasons to. Lemmy likely was threatened by a larger industry that could’ve thrown millions of dollars around in a court to get Lemmy taken down. The guys running Lemmy wouldn’t have enough money to win a lawsuit, the website could easily be taken down by a larger entity. When it comes to losing the community or blocking a couple communities, it’s an easy choice. In summary, they’re just trying to save the website by avoiding future lawsuits, and these communities still exist but can’t be accessed on Lemmy itself.

Install Jerboa on your phone. Once it stops working, that means Lemmy has been updated.

I have a limited data plan, and the browser uses up a lot more data then an app would.