So there was a bit of a stir at Advertising Week on Monday when think-privacy.com founder Alexander Hanff told the room that the use of scripts to detect adblockers was illegal.
Over the coming hours and days there were a number of queries made directly to Hanff both privately and via Twitter asking for clarification on the point. Eventually we got the answer: ‘Use of scripts by websites to detect adblockers could be a breach of Article 5(3) of the 2002/58/EC ePrivacy Directive – the same selection that covers use of cookies and drove the discussion in 2012 about the Read full story ›
Source: The Drum
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