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Youtube's Anti-adblock is illegal in the EU (eupolicy.social)
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[โ€“] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Google is tracking you on every website that has a "share to Google" icon.

Which means Google has your entire browser history, even if you use Firefox.

If it was just on their own websites, nobody would be complaining.

[โ€“] Stumblinbear@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is specifically about YouTube and YouTube specifically detecting adblock on YouTube.