YouTube's Ad Blocker Detection Believed to Break EU Privacy Law

A complaint filed with the EU's independent data regulator accuses YouTube of failing to get explicit user permission for its ad blocker detection system, potentially violating the ePrivacy Directive

wired.com/story/youtube-ad-blo

The script that deploys is detecting what software people are running on their machines or what behaviour their browser is exhibiting in relation to their private activities It's not okay It's illegal

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i have added this filter(copy and paste)in my filters

pastebin.com/raw/XVApjrqY

in Ublock Origin extension using that and clearing cookies for YouTube regularly stops ads showing

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if for some reason it stops working

Go to Settings in Ublock (Open Dashboard) -> Filters list (second tab at the top)-> Purge all caches -> Update filters

1- In some cases it is necessary to clear your history, in order to delete cookies and cache from YT.

2- Quite possible this would need to be performed every now and then, whenever YT updates their detection functionality. It's and arms race at this point.

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