@feld @AlgorithmWolf @helvick @thatprivacyguy it's also not clear to me that serving a javascript file is communication in the sense of a "communication service" I guess that would be the video, I'm going by the definitions in Article 2. I'm not a lawyer so maybe I'm totally wrong though!

Fuck ads and fuck Google all that that but my personal feeling is that collecting just enough information about my browser to not show me a video if I refused the ads doesn't damage my privacy in any meaningful way. If a law said it did then that law is dumb.