Am I the only one who thinks its laughable that adding their domain to a blocklist "circumvents" their protection technology? If I was a content provider I don't think I'd want to rely on something so flimsy.
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#22>"This domain accepts GET and POST requests over standard HTTP ports (TCP 80 and TCP 443) via strictly web based traffic originating from browsers" lol
Don't joke. You really don't want to see these kinds of ravenous lawyers try to define website access not from an 'approved' browser as unauthorized access under the CFAA.
You could add to your TOS which browsers are approved. Using an unapproved browser would violate the current CFAA - under the current interpretation. Federal felony 1-5 years.
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#23Is it safe to type this blocked URL in browser? Will i get sued?
Only if you delete all and any memories you have of the domain. I suggest a bottle of strong alcohol.
If the contents of the bottle doesn't facilitate in aforementioned memory deletion, usage of the bottle to apply liberal amounts of blunt force is suggested.
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#24There has been a growing trend of websites that will ask me to either: a) whitelist their site in my adblocker b) or subscribe to their monthly subscription and keep reading their site with adblocker
Which results every single time in choosing option C: the browser back button.
Usually two or three times because fuck sites who hijack browser history because I scroll a little too far
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#25There has been a growing trend of websites that will ask me to either: a) whitelist their site in my adblocker b) or subscribe to their monthly subscription and keep reading their site with adblocker
Which results every single time in choosing option C: the browser back button.
Some of the websites that do that have solid content though. Not good enough for me to pay them though so I end up clicking the back button and using alternative sources.
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#26There has been a growing trend of websites that will ask me to either: a) whitelist their site in my adblocker b) or subscribe to their monthly subscription and keep reading their site with adblocker
Unless it's The Atlantic, which blocks all article access from my iPad even though I'm a subscriber. I can read their content only with a computer-based browser (with ad blocker, of course).
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#27Store a hash of the URLs instead of the URLs themselves.
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#28Is it illegal to claim something under DMCA when it does not in fact represent a DMCA claim?
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#29There has been a growing trend of websites that will ask me to either: a) whitelist their site in my adblocker b) or subscribe to their monthly subscription and keep reading their site with adblocker
I have just been blacklisting those sites for myself. I haven't missed out on anything yet.
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#30There has been a growing trend of websites that will ask me to either: a) whitelist their site in my adblocker b) or subscribe to their monthly subscription and keep reading their site with adblocker
Which results every single time in choosing option C: the browser back button.
Or D: add the popup asking me to disable my adblocker... to my adblocker.
Only works on some sites, but where it does it's effective.