Privacy advocate challenges YouTube's ad blocking detection scripts under EU lawwww.theregister.comexternal-linkcross-posted to: globalnews@lemmy.ziphackernews@derp.footechnology@feddit.chprivacyguides@lemmy.one Lee Duna ( @throws_lemy@lemmy.nz ) TechnologyEnglish • 1 year ago message-square24fedilinkarrow-up1134
arrow-up1134external-linkPrivacy advocate challenges YouTube's ad blocking detection scripts under EU lawwww.theregister.com Lee Duna ( @throws_lemy@lemmy.nz ) TechnologyEnglish • 1 year ago message-square24fedilinkcross-posted to: globalnews@lemmy.ziphackernews@derp.footechnology@feddit.chprivacyguides@lemmy.one
minus-square GissaMittJobb ( @GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml ) linkfedilink1•1 year agoThis would probably be unviable, since from a UX standpoint you want the first segments of the non-ad content to be preloaded when the ad ends.
minus-square aksdb ( @aksdb@feddit.de ) linkfedilink3•1 year agoThat will be irrelevant when the control freaks take over. Case in point: anti piracy ads in the good old DVD/BluRay days. Unskippable shit that ironically only punishes people who bought legitimate media.
minus-square GissaMittJobb ( @GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml ) linkfedilink1•1 year agoI honestly think that the people at Google are a bit smarter than that, but we’ll see whether that holds or not.
This would probably be unviable, since from a UX standpoint you want the first segments of the non-ad content to be preloaded when the ad ends.
That will be irrelevant when the control freaks take over. Case in point: anti piracy ads in the good old DVD/BluRay days. Unskippable shit that ironically only punishes people who bought legitimate media.
I honestly think that the people at Google are a bit smarter than that, but we’ll see whether that holds or not.