Court outlaws German Weather Service's free weather app
WetterOnline has won its case against Germany's national weather service. The company sued the service over the anti-competitive nature of its free weather forecast app.
The German Weather Service (DWD) will no longer be allowed to provide general weather forecasts in a free mobile phone app after a federal court ruled in favor of a private firm on Thursday.
[...] the national meteorological service will only be permitted to offer extreme weather warnings for free and that a DWD app offering general weather forecasts must contain advertisements or be purchased by users.
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No national weather service could ever make a profit by giving away weather information for free.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 14 2020, @03:08PM
Do the ad thing but only from the same hosting server, no JavaScript, as a banner, black and white PNG only, set height and length as 20px high and 100 long with ads auto hiding after 2 seconds. Make a policy that only real people can post ads and limit content to inoffensive charities only e.g. local fetes and social gatherings etc.