Axel Springer Goes After iOS 9 Ad Blockers in New Legal Battle
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#2Soon in the news: Comcast sues to make going to the bathroom during commercial breaks illegal.
Re: Axel Springer Goes After iOS 9 Ad Blockers in New Legal Battle
#3So, they've already lost in the German courts vs. ABP; why do they get to keep going after other companies with the same bogus arguments?
Re: Axel Springer Goes After iOS 9 Ad Blockers in New Legal Battle
#4Soon in the news: Comcast sues to make going to the bathroom during commercial breaks illegal.
Sssht, you might give them ideas. I am cynical enough to believe that they will add a IR heartrate sensor (a la XBox One Kinect) to 'pause entertainment' when nobody is in the room.
Formulated like that, it even sounds like a feature ;).
Re: Axel Springer Goes After iOS 9 Ad Blockers in New Legal Battle
#5So, they've already lost in the German courts vs. ABP; why do they get to keep going after other companies with the same bogus arguments?
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
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#6i was more startled to learn in passing that yahoo was blocking people's email if they blocked ads. that one seems particularly desperate, given how the last thing yahoo needs now is more reasons for people to abandon them.
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#7So, they've already lost in the German courts vs. ABP; why do they get to keep going after other companies with the same bogus arguments?
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#8It's pretty stupid what they try to do to get even more money
They somehow managed to get a law in place which prohibits quoting of even small passages online (i.e. Google News) without paying for it. What did Google do? Simply removed them from the results, they tried to sue and lost. Now they gave Google permission to include them for free. What about the smaller services? Who cares about those - loads of news aggregators shut down in response.
Now that (some) adblockers have been ruled legal they sued a bunch of people (youtuber, the adblock forum) for providing instruction on how to get around the anti-adblocker wall they put in Fun times
Re: Axel Springer Goes After iOS 9 Ad Blockers in New Legal Battle
#9> “The results are beyond our expectations,” said Springer chief exec Mathias Döpfner at the time. “Over two-thirds of the users concerned switched off their adblocker.” He also noted that the Bild.de website received an additional 3 million visits from users who could now see the ads in the first two weeks of the experiment going live.
Then trying to shut down ad blockers by legal routes must be completely pointless if just asking people is so effective?