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Axel Springer Goes After iOS 9 Ad Blockers in New Legal Battle

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Re: Axel Springer Goes After iOS 9 Ad Blockers in New Legal Battle

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So, 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?

Quite obviously, they are trying the American model of suing everybody in sight again and again until they give up.

I wonder how much all this litigation will cost their bottom line.

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Axel Springer is not the only publisher that’s taking a confrontational approach to dealing with ad blockers, The FT recently reported. U.K. newspaper City AM banned ad blockers from its website; U.K. broadcasters ITV and Channel 4 have now done the same; and the Washington Post redirects readers to a subscription page, or asks them to sign up to newsletters, or disable their ad-blocking software. Even Yahoo has gott…

I think part of the issue too is that on some of these sites even if you subscribe, you're not getting an ad-free experience.

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Soon 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 ;).

Spotify won't let you mute during adverts and will pause if it detects the system volume drop quickly.

They can't detect the volume on external speakers. But there's no reason why they couldn't with a microphone.

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Axel Springer is not the only publisher that’s taking a confrontational approach to dealing with ad blockers, The FT recently reported. U.K. newspaper City AM banned ad blockers from its website; U.K. broadcasters ITV and Channel 4 have now done the same; and the Washington Post redirects readers to a subscription page, or asks them to sign up to newsletters, or disable their ad-blocking software. Even Yahoo has gott…

Right? It always cracks me up when I see an paywall. It's like, who do you think you are? I don't care whatsoever about your site or business, I care about quickly finding the information I'm looking for.

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I started using iOS ad blockers on day one. Judging by the amount I have to recharge - I'm on pre paid - I use about 50% of the data I used to and spend proportionally less. I also stopped using the Twitter and Facebook apps in favour of the mobile web sites. I only see Twitter ads now. There really needs to be another model.

What ad blocker are you using? You comment inspired me to start using one on my iphone, but, as usual, the App store is full of garbage and I have no idea which one is the real deal.

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Axel Springer is not the only publisher that’s taking a confrontational approach to dealing with ad blockers, The FT recently reported. U.K. newspaper City AM banned ad blockers from its website; U.K. broadcasters ITV and Channel 4 have now done the same; and the Washington Post redirects readers to a subscription page, or asks them to sign up to newsletters, or disable their ad-blocking software. Even Yahoo has gott…

>> U.K. broadcasters ITV and Channel 4 have now done the same

Have they? Just went to their sites, no indications there.... is it just mobile?

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Axel Springer is not the only publisher that’s taking a confrontational approach to dealing with ad blockers, The FT recently reported. U.K. newspaper City AM banned ad blockers from its website; U.K. broadcasters ITV and Channel 4 have now done the same; and the Washington Post redirects readers to a subscription page, or asks them to sign up to newsletters, or disable their ad-blocking software. Even Yahoo has gott…

>> U.K. broadcasters ITV and Channel 4 have now done the same Have they? Just went to their sites, no indications there.... is it just mobile?

I wonder if they're referring to video portions? I'm fairly sure both of them have attempted to block adblocking users from VOD for ages.

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Axel Springer is not the only publisher that’s taking a confrontational approach to dealing with ad blockers, The FT recently reported. U.K. newspaper City AM banned ad blockers from its website; U.K. broadcasters ITV and Channel 4 have now done the same; and the Washington Post redirects readers to a subscription page, or asks them to sign up to newsletters, or disable their ad-blocking software. Even Yahoo has gott…

I think part of the issue too is that on some of these sites even if you subscribe, you're not getting an ad-free experience.

Market Saturation: If there is too much product in the market, the product is worthless. News right now is worthless. Way too many providers not pushing enough quality.

Re: Axel Springer Goes After iOS 9 Ad Blockers in New Legal Battle

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Axel Springer is not the only publisher that’s taking a confrontational approach to dealing with ad blockers, The FT recently reported. U.K. newspaper City AM banned ad blockers from its website; U.K. broadcasters ITV and Channel 4 have now done the same; and the Washington Post redirects readers to a subscription page, or asks them to sign up to newsletters, or disable their ad-blocking software. Even Yahoo has gott…

> Even Yahoo has gotten in on the action, blocking users from their email when they have AdBlock running.

Wait, really? Users can't read their email if an adblocker is installed? I can't imagine what mother would do if she ran into a error message like that while trying to check her email (but she doesn't use yahoo).

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