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The European Union is about to ban anti-adblockers since they run scripts on your computer without your consent, thus violating GDPR.
How is that any different from any other javascript on a website?
That sounds like an absolute clusterfuck in the making
How so? I would love to see this in my country.
How do you determine what's essential?
If I have a script on my site that implements page transitions (eg. when an internal link is clicked, fade out the old page and fade in the new page), is that essential or non-essential? It's a part of the site's design, however the site still functions without it.
It's a slippery slope.
There will just be another popup and everything is fine. Ads are youtube business model, they can ask you to deactivate adblock, pay up or leave the site like a lot of news sites do. Running anti-adblockers is entirely within the law if you get informed about it on the site.