• tal@lemmy.today
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    This is grounded in the assertion that a website’s HTML/CSS is a protected computer program that an ad blocker intervenes in the in-memory execution structures (DOM, CSSOM, rendering tree), this constituting unlawful reproduction and modification.

    “There are many reasons, in addition to ad blocking, that users might want their browser or a browser extension to alter a webpage,” Nazer says, explaining that some causes could stem from the need “to improve accessibility, to evaluate accessibility, or to protect privacy.”

    Stylus and Greasemonkey would presumably violate that, for example.

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      Not even that, it would technically outlaw developer tools. Your browser allows you to freely edit the DOM at any point.

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        Not unrealistic. You can easily get swatted for having mildly left takes and publishing them in the wrong form/media, or calling a politician “1 pecker”.

        Andry Grote ist 1 Pimmel.