Comment on 'Ad Blocking is Not Piracy' Decision Overturned By Top German Court

• unmagical@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Can a website operator prove I consented to their terms if I block their consent popup?

  If you continue to use their website than that is a you problem. It is no different than actively ignoring the signage at the local kroger saying “no guns allowed”

  If I block consent notices how would I possibly know there was a consent notice governing continued use and how would a company know I never actually saw the consent notice to begin with?

  I also don’t consent to having billboards all around me or ads literally mailed to me in the post.

  Which is a very different mess with very different laws governing it. That said? You would be shocked how easy it is to complain about a billboard ad and get it to go away.

  It’s the same mess. A company makes an ad and partners with another company to distribute that ad. That distributor then partners with several vendors to show that ad. In exactly 0 cases was the recipient of the ad asked for consent. In one case the recipient of that ad has an option to not see it–heaven forbid they actually exercise that option.

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