EFF: Catalog of Missing Devices: Ad Free Youtube Kids

Catalog of Missing Devices: Ad Free Youtube Kids

Since the invention of the remote control, rightsholders and audience have fought a war over ads. The market for tools to skip, mask or mute ads holds publishers and marketers to account: they know that if their ads get too obnoxious, their audiences will be motivated to make them disappear. With DRM, though, the arms race changes: the audience gets disarmed, leaving the marketing side to get as invasive and intrusive as they want.

Published April 03, 2018 at 01:55AM
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