Adblockers are legal, German courts ruled. Their argument: users not only have the right to receive information but also to refuse it.
That sounds about right. It'd be positively dystopian if companies can claim the right to force-feed information. A win for internet user freedom :).
One of the downsides of the ruling is that a company can exclude users with an activated adblocker from accessing its website.
npub10admtmn456zvutt5wpsjjh20dk2lp2anmg998uw9py9tfkkapzvqqttvms (npub10ad…tvms) wrote an interesting article about the case
https://fsfe.org/news/2023/news-20231220-01.en.html
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2023-12-20 17:04:17
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