• gian
    link
    fedilink
    English
    31 year ago

    So because they earn money somewhere else they should do something else for free?

    Obviously not, but there is nothing to stop Google from making Youtube a paid service and drop that charade about adblockers.

    • @Demuniac@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      01 year ago

      Google’s main source of income is ads across the board, so fighting adblockers is certainly in their best interest

      • @Honytawk@lemmy.zip
        link
        fedilink
        English
        41 year ago

        And users blocking all ads as long as Google is illegally tracking their online movement is in their best interest as well.

      • gian
        link
        fedilink
        English
        21 year ago

        Fine. But it need to fight by the rules.

        It is not up to discussion: Youtube want to serve video to EU user ? They need to follow EU rules. If the rule says that adblocker detection technologies (or attempt) are illegal Youtube has no really a say in it.

        • @Demuniac@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          0
          edit-2
          1 year ago

          Hell yeah they should, I’m not disputing that, but there’s so many here pretending like it’s somehow unethical for Google to fight against ad blockers, and I am arguing that.

          • gian
            link
            fedilink
            English
            11 year ago

            It it not unethical what they are doing but how they are doing it. Not to mention against the law.

        • @wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          link
          fedilink
          English
          01 year ago

          But to be clear, that is not what the EU law being cited here says. It says something that may be interpreted as it. I hope that is how it gets interpreted. But that is not what it says.