The German high court now suggests that if ad blockers manipulate a site’s structure in ways that violate copyright integrity, they could be deemed illegal.
Now, I’m no legal expert, particularly not in the workings of German copyright law. But an ad blocker does not “manipulate a site’s structure”, so copyright seems like very shakey grounds for a legal argument. All adblockers do is block connections to specific domains, and then what you see is what the website’s server spits out without downloading info from those outside domains. AFAIK there is no adblocker that is editing a website’s actual code, but maybe some of the advanced YT adblockers are doing that, idk.
Naich@lemmings.world 3 days ago
It’s more that it has been sent back to the lower court. Wherever the outcome, it will eventually go back to the higher one and the decision will be appealed by whoever loses. Nothing is going to be decided for a long time.