No need to call it insane so many times, please keep things a bit more civilised. And maybe next time read the article before you continue to comment on it, be

No need to call it insane so many times, please keep things a bit more civilised. And maybe next time read the article before you continue to comment on it, because this is not my "insane view of the wording of the law". This is how the European Commission and the Irish privacy regulators (Google Europe is in Ireland) see it. Quoting straight from the article: > "In early 2016 I wrote to the European Commission requesting a formal legal clarification [..] Specifically whether the deployment of scripts or other technologies to detect an ad blocker would require consent (as it is not strictly necessary for the provision of the requested service and is purely for the interests of the publisher). The European Commission sent me a formal written response agreeing with my position that such activities would require consent." It's fine if you disagree with these laws, many people do. But it is how the law currently works as confirmed by the people that wrote the law as well as the agency that enforces it.