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Reuters has reported that, in a defeat for the publisher Springer, the German Supreme Court has ruled that ad blockers are legal.
Germany's Supreme Court on Thursday threw out a case brought by Axel Springer seeking to ban a popular application that blocks online advertising, in a landmark ruling that deals a blow to the publishing industry.
The court found in favor of Adblock Plus adblockplus.org, an app marketed by a firm called Eyeo that has been downloaded more than 100 million times by users around the world seeking protection from unwanted or intrusive online advertising.
That is followed by some analysis by Rick Falkvinge on the court's decision over at the Private Internet Access blog.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by nitehawk214 on Wednesday April 25 2018, @02:14PM
Exactly, Adblock Plus and Eyeo cannot be trusted due to their paid whitelists. Everyone should have moved on to uBlock or some other ad blocker.
Axel Springer just wanted to sue them out of existence so they could stop paying the extortion fee. If they somehow managed to get the court to declare all ad blocking illegal, that's just a bonus. I doubt they expected that outcome. Hell, even if they did, what would stop people from blocking anyhow? They could use Eyeo out of existance, and a dozen other blockers would show up to replace it. (Hell, there are already a lot of fake adblockers named "Adblock ____".)
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