Across the internet, users rely on browsers and extensions to shape how they experience the web: to protect their privacy, improve accessibility, block harmful or intrusive content, and take control over what they see. But a recent ruling from Germany’s Federal Supreme Court risks turning one of these essential tools, the ad blocker, into a copyright liability — and in doing so, threatens the broader principle of user choice online.
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Germany seems to be speed-running becoming another shit-hole dystopian country.
___________ seems to be speed-running becoming another shit-hole dystopian country
I don’t know what the f happened It’s like somebody just flipped a stupid switch
I’m sure it has nothing to do with all the contaminants in our bodies, right? What’s a few grams of plastic coupled with PFAS and who knows what else?
Also, it turns out high heat makes us dumber so look forward to some even more aggressive stupidity in the future!
A “copyright liability”?
Another reason we need to overhaul patent/copyright law.
Nevermind tearing a page out of your own copy of a book is not a copyright issue… at all.
Sooooo, AI doesn’t violate copyright but ad blockers might do? That checks out for sure
Edit: weird phrasing corrected to a bit less weird
Ad blockers violate copyright law like breathing violates patent law.
What’s not mentioned here is that the overall thing started because adblock plus is a addon by a company that is making money by selling it. This is not about ublock origin.
Nein danke.
