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Youtube's Anti-adblock is illegal in the EU
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this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2023
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yes. This is what I replied at. Having a version with ads and a version without ads is not that big of an issue. The issue becomes huge because the ads are personalized which means that they cannot even have a version with ads since the ads are different for each user.
It's an issue of storage space if nothing else. It means doubling all of their videos. Why would they do that? As others have pointed out, they have other options when it comes to dealing with adblockers which don't violate any EU regulations and even this is pretty tenuous. So they don't need to do that. They can just prevent the site from working properly if you have an adblocker.