How do these sites even know ads are being blocked? What’s to stop the ad blocker just downloading the ads and simply not showing them?
Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal
Submitted 22 hours ago by nemeski@mander.xyz to technology@lemmy.zip
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twinnie@feddit.uk 22 hours ago
roofuskit@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I think that’s the inevitable step, because they can tell when you don’t load the ad.
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 18 hours ago
Seems like it’s specifically browser based ones. DNS based ones like piholes are still on the menu.
starchylemming@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
i hate the Axel Springer company so much
purest scum of the earth. always have been
Amoxtli@thelemmy.club 19 hours ago
Very possible argument against them. Ads are like a payment. That is like not paying people their due.
m532@lemmygrad.ml 15 hours ago
Then every ad needs a big green confirm button before one can watch it. Consumer protection laws.
FreeBooteR69@lemmy.ca 21 hours ago
Don’t tolerate this shit Germany, inform your representatives that should such regulation pass they can kiss their votes goodbye. Just imagine how dog shit your bandwidth and viewing experience is going to be.
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 9 hours ago
The government is “social” democrats and “Christian” “democrats”. Both are very tough on crime and very pro corporation.
There’s a reason Germany has some of the most restrictive copyright law in the world. For example, only recently became making certain parodies legal due to a EU law forcing Germany to allow them.
Copyright infringement over here has the same exact punishment range as child kidnapping for non-monetary reasons.
There is a fee for anything that can cause copyright violations paid to copyright collectives including but not limited to storage mediums (CDs, flash drives, hard drives), electronic devices with said storage medium (mobile phones, computers) printers, scanners as well as yearly fees for having publicly accessible printers (for example, 190€ per printer in public libraries, 418€ per printer in universities/colleges) or general fees, like 17,222,621€ paid by the state for continuing the existence of libraries per year (in 2014, today probably significantly more).
Hardly anyone provides free WiFi because you can be sued for the copyright violations of your users. Or rather, you get a cease and desist with the demand to pay 1000€ in damages and if you don’t then you will be sued and lose.
Emulators for modern video games are almost certainly illegal because all modern consoles include DRM you’d need to circumvent to get a game to run on the emulator. This means the development would already be illegal. There hasn’t been any court case though because no emulation developer is based in Germany.
Only since a few years is publishing photos of the interior of your home if your wallpaper is copyrighted legal. Prior to that, you’d always lose if you were sued in Hamburg.
Hamburg has also ruled the website youtube-dl.org was illegal and that youtube-dl violates copyright. Sony and others successfully sued the hosting provider and were granted damages.
There’s probably a million more things but copyright in Germany is generally fucked. There’s no way any politician that has ever been in government will do anything that doesn’t further strengthen copyright.