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.
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
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.
