YouTube deploys Spyware

Privacy expert Alexander Hanff filed a complaint against YouTube with the Irish Data Protection Commission, arguing that YouTube's ad blocker detection scripts flout the EU's ePrivacy Directive. “If YouTube continues to think they can get away with deploying spyware to our devices, I will bring them down,” Hanff says.

“The script that [YouTube] deploys is detecting what software people are running on their machines or what behaviour their browser is exhibiting in relation to their private activities. It's not okay. …

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