in wake of the EU ruling that youtube isn't allowed to block adblockers, i can understand this move.
imo the eu needs to stay out of this. its a competition between people trying to block ads and trying to force you to see them, which i see nothing wrong with.
No, it’s not “people” on both sides. Google isn’t “people”. It’s one of the biggest corporations in the world. I’m not a big fan of the EU, mostly because their rulings tend to be a bit …clueless. The specific decision of getting in the way of big corp here is totally ok. They’ll probably do it badly and in an ineffective way, sure, but the problem is the implementation, not the idea.
i'm looking now, based on what i've seen the past couple days, and i guess there hasn't been an official ruling so i must been duped
but there is a discussion going on about this, a few news articles and one hn post. basically they want to determine whether its ok for youtube to check your computer's memory to see if you're somehow blocking their ads.
This is my sticking point. I understand that building and running websites isn’t free, and if ads were 468x60 PNGs I’d be willing to live with them. I’m not willing to live with you selling the ability to run arbitrary untrusted javascript on my computer to the highest bidder.
imo the eu needs to stay out of this. its a competition between people trying to block ads and trying to force you to see them, which i see nothing wrong with.