Top German court says maybe the Web should be more like television in order to protect copyright

Back in 2022, Walled Culture wrote about a legal case involving ad blockers. These are hugely popular programs: according to recent statistics, around one billion people use ad blockers when they are online. That’s a testament to the importance many people attach to being in control of their browser experience, and to a wide dislike of the ads they are forced to view. The 2022 case concerned […]

#accessibility #adBlockers #adblock #beethoven #bgh #competitionLaw #eu #eyeo #germany #mozilla #phishing #privacy #rembrandt #shakespeare #springer #surveillance #tracking

https://walledculture.org/top-german-court-says-maybe-the-web-should-be-more-like-television-in-order-to-protect-copyright/

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• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: The Art of the Movie
• Awesome adblockers – a small list of utilities for a more private browser navigation

'#Ad Blocking is Not #Piracy' Decision Overturned By Top German Court
There’s little doubt that online businesses reliant on advertising revenue are negatively affected by increasing use of #adblocking solutions.
Yet it’s thanks to abusive and invasive #ads, and threats to #privacy due to incessant online tracking, that #adblockers became so popular.
https://torrentfreak.com/ad-blocking-is-not-piracy-decision-overturned-by-top-german-court-250819/

Germany’s highest court may ban ad blockers, raising stakes for online privacy & user control! The case pits Axel Springer vs. Adblock Plus, focusing on copyright claims around browser code manipulation. Could impact many browser extensions. Read more: https://cyberinsider.com/ad-blockers-face-possible-ban-in-germany-after-court-ruling/ #AdBlockers #Privacy #DigitalRights #newz

Pour l'instant, je ne vois pas trop les effets sur mon PC perso sous #LinuxMint avec #Freetube ou #Firefox + #ublockorigin. Par contre, sur le PC de boulot sous #Windows11 avec #Firefox + #ublockorigin, j'ai très souvent des soucis de chargement de vidéo.

La guerre contre les #adblockers, ça rapporte : les revenus publicitaires de #YouTube explosent

https://www.clubic.com/actualite-573864-la-guerre-contre-les-adblockers-ca-rapporte-les-revenus-publicitaires-de-youtube-explosent.html

So #Google “surprisingly” kills #adblockers by removing webRequestBlocking in MV3…
But forgets to clean up one ancient line of C++ that lets you just spoof a WebView ID…

#priceless

https://0x44.xyz/blog/web-request-blocking/

#Adblockers Are “Harmful and Dangerous”… by #sog #yt #fckytb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJETSlnqOqc

9to5 Google: YouTube just started a new round of ad blocker bans, and people keep complaining about it. “For a while, many have been using various loopholes to continue to block ads on YouTube. Over the past 24 hours, YouTube appears to have strengthened its protection against this means of access, with viewers now seeing ‘Ad blockers are not allowed on YouTube’ and ‘Ad blockers violate […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/10/9to5-google-youtube-just-started-a-new-round-of-ad-blocker-bans-and-people-keep-complaining-about-it/

YouTube part à la chasse aux ad blockers, au grand dam des resquilleurs http://dlvr.it/TLCdpf #YouTube #AdBlockers

Ad blockers are great at making websites usable. If you don't want me to use an ad blocker, just display ads that aren't a security threat and/or make the browser slow down to a crawl and/or make your content very hard to view.

But you won't do the above so uBlock stays and I can skip your site.

And exactly as I thought instead of education and simplifying workflows purposes these companies' "AI's" will be used to generate a "better" ads experience for you. Absolutely disgusting.

While they are still available use the Ad Blockers or FreeTube App if you want to see more sane and adequate ytb like it used to be long time ago.

dexerto.com/youtube/youtubes-a…

#AI
#adblockers
#tblockads
#freetube
#TradeRuinsEverything

#YouTube Is Promoting #Adblockers Now... by #sog #fckytbe #yt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0GR13Imv3M

Silly name, but the #pihole is a great way to block ads on every device in your home. If anyone needs any tips to get started let me know.

#YouTube cracks down (again) on #adblockers, frustrating users

https://www.techspot.com/news/107221-youtube-anti-ad-blocker-measures-causing-problems-browsers.html

#Googles Finally Banning #Adblockers...What Can We Do?... by Basic Dev #yt

https://youtu.be/rlFl63KoyMk

Just use another #browser. I know the majority of browsers are based on #Chrome, etc. Still, there are other options: #LibreWolf, #Mullvad Browser, #Tor Browser, #Ungoogled Chromium, and the likes…

uBlock Origin n'est pas un adblocker — MiddleEarth https://blog.middleearth.fr/ublock-origin-nest-pas-un-adblocker.html #ublock_origin #ublockorigin #adblockers #ad_aware #adaware #publicité_en_ligne #cybersécurité #publicitéenligne

#Firefox will continue to support #adblockers in move to be better than #Chrome.

Finally some good news coming out of Mozilla. :)

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-manifest-v3-adblockers/

#Chrome users are already losing access to #ublockorigin, one of the most popular #adblockers because it relies on a Manifest V2 feature called blockingWebRequest.

#firefox will continue supporting both blockingWebRequest and declarativeNetRequest — giving developers more flexibility and keeping powerful #privacy tools available to users.

@mozillaofficial @firefoxnightly @firefox
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-manifest-v3-adblockers/