'Ad Blocking is Not Piracy' Decision Overturned By Top German Court * TorrentFreak
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Legal action by publisher Axel Springer, which aims to outlaw ad blocking on copyright grounds, has been revived by Germany's top court.

German publisher Axel Springer, owner of brands including Bild and Die Welt, has been given another opportunity to have ad blocking outlawed on copyright grounds. After a series of defeats in its years-long legal action against the makers of Adblock Plus, the publisher appealed to the Federal Court of Justice. Germany’s top court has now overturned a 2023 ruling by the Higher Regional Court of Hamburg, referring the case back for reconsideration of the core issues.

  • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I don’t get the problem with these anti-adblock ppl here.

    • The web-server is under their control. They can, if they want to: not serve the content if the user decides to block the ad.
    • The computer is under the control of the user and the user decides what they consider to be malware and what they don’t.
      • If the user considers a website that pops up a colour chooser or a calculator to be a malicious website, they should have the right to block that particular website.
      • If the user considers any random website to be a malicious website, they get the right to block that website on their own personal internet connected machine.

    And if blocking ads is considered illegal, then ignoring robots.txt is also illegal.

    I don’t use ad blockers, but I do use website blockers.
    If I consider any site to be doing something I don’t like, I just add them to the blacklist, regardless of whether or not they are an advertisement site.