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Ad-blocker blocking websites face legal peril at hands of privacy bods

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@Alexander Hanff 1 "Canvas Fingerprinting is also illegal under 5(3) of 2002/58/EC"

Wrong. It's not illegal. It just requires the same consent as do cookies. So, fingerprinting is perfectly legal as long as the consent requirements are met.

"So if you detect that sites are using this method you should first complain to the site and if they do not change their behaviour, fire off a complaint to your regulator."

He can try, but if the site is otherwise compliant with the "cookie law", it's also perfectly legal to use fingerprinting.

"If you regulator refuses to enforce, get in touch with the EU Commission and file a complaint against your country "

Yeah. Either that. Or you could just educate yourself about the actual law and about how the web works at the technological level. Wouldn't harm you either.

" The Commission have advised me to do the same thing with Member States who do not enforce our rights regarding adblock detectors."

You mean your imaginary adblock detectors, that "store scripts" on the client terminal, right? Well, since there are no such detector in existence, yet, I guess you'll have to write one if you want to continue your crusade against this yet imaginary enemy, and not look like a complete fool in the process.

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