- cross-posted to:
- theandrocollection@lemm.ee
- cross-posted to:
- theandrocollection@lemm.ee
YouTube’s ad blocking crackdown is facing a new challenge: privacy laws | Privacy advocates argue YouTube’s ad blocker restrictions violate the European Union’s online privacy laws.::YouTube is launching a “global effort” to crack down on ad blockers, but some privacy advocates in the European Union argue that it’s illegal.
They’re also leading the race to making encryption illegal, so…
That’s dumb and will never happen
In the US there was a period of time where it was illegal to export encryption above a certain level, so in a way it has already happened. Dumb has never stopped governments before.
How would ssl work if you ban encryption?
There was a proposal to have webbrowsers have to accept government certificates. Consequently they could man-in-the-middle/take over domains.
You could argue it’s no different from another central authority that can issue trusted certificates. But it’s government’s rather than independent orgs.