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Germany’s Federal Court Suggests Ad Blockers May Infringe Copyright, Reopens Legal Case
If modifying a site’s display is ruled illegal, privacy features could face sweeping legal pushback.
German court rules against “almost absurd” claim that ad blocking is copyright infringement
The lawsuit was brought against Adblock Plus by Axel Springer.
Senator Ron Wyden asks FTC to investigate pay-for-play ad blocking whitelisting
Wyden suggests its anti-competitive.
Ad Blockers are set to stop working on Google Chrome
Apparently it’s a better “user experience”.
The company behind Adblock Plus just backed Factmata, another fact-checking company that wants to profit on being arbiters of truth
Entrepreneurs want to get rich from deciding what’s true.
Axel Springer thinks you can sue adblockers for…copyright infringement?
Previously, AdBlock had been sued unsuccessfully in Germany as “undermining Axel Springer’s business model” – only for this be thrown out by the country’s courts.