Notices by Alexander Hanff (thatprivacyguy@eupolicy.social), page 2

I cannot stress enough how important it is for you all to take the 5-10 minutes it takes to file this complaint.

If the Irish DPC receives only my complaint they will likely not pay it any attention for at least 18 months if at all - but if they receive 10 000 complaints it will seriously eat into their budget (it costs money to handle complaints) and will "motivate" them to act much faster.

If they receive 100 000 complaints - YouTube will be forced to stop this very quickly indeed.

@AlgorithmWolf I am not asking what they are doing - I know already what they are doing from a technical perspective; and I am not asking if it is illegal, I already know it is illegal as I am an expert on this particular law, helped to write its replacement and already had confirmation from DG Just (EU Commission) that the law applies in the way I have stated.

I also never said anything about GDPR - this is not a GDPR issue.

But thanks for your input :)

Today I filed a formal complaint against #YouTube with the Irish Data Protection Commissioner for their illegal deployment of #adblock detection technologies.

Under Article 5(3) of 2002/58/EC YouTube are legally obligated to obtain consent before storing or accessing information already stored on an end user's terminal equipment unless it is strictly necessary for the provisions of the requested service.

In 2016 the EU Commission confirmed in writing that adblock detection requires consent.