@campuscodi Germany, what a fucking country...
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@campuscodi It reads like "Please don't wear masks, you're altering the free polluted air we're allowing you to breathe"
@campuscodi FUCK THEM
@campuscodi they never stopped being clueless nazis
@campuscodi lol ad blocking is required by all Australian federal agencies by law.
@campuscodi
One-sided freedom is not freedom. Freedom to advertise should mean freedom to ignore or block that advertisement.
The German Federal Supreme Court would be foolish to ignore that reality, and to rule that ad blockers were illegal.
@campuscodi
YOU WILL EAT THE BUGS
YOU WILL WATCH THE ADS
@campuscodi
How will the courts learn I am using one?
What can they even do about it?
You are being charged with the offense of not visiting multiple websites that have ad-blocker detection.
@campuscodi Christ. If blocking ads can be a copyright issue then all internet use might as well be an infringement. See I made a copy of the website by opening the page. Two copies even, one on screen and one in the cache. And actually it is surely a derivative work because I copied the code of the site and ran it through a transformative process (the browser) which made the code into a visual representation of the code on screen..... Etc etc etc.
@campuscodi
Good, then maybe people will stop using sites with ads.
@campuscodi the federal court sent the case back to the state court saying that they didn't thoroughly consider plaintiff's arguments.
More context: https://infosec.exchange/@pft/115035092256474197
@campuscodi it's interesting how you can train an LLM on copyrighted material but you can't stop garbage internet traffic coming into your web browser 🙄
@campuscodi
I would remove myself from Germany before I removed my ad-blockers.
@campuscodi the Internet is teetering on becoming unusable.
The Web is largely becoming unusable already as everything has banners on top of pop-ups on top of nag screens, with garbage AI content. Some jurisdictions are forcing people to expose their personal identity to theft & privacy abuse, and if the few defense tools like blockers are killed it all becomes unusable.
Internet will be only data transport for applications and walled gardens, and corporate ownership will stifle anything else.
@campuscodi It looks like this case is coming down to copyright. So here's a question. If there was a physical device which could be configured to ink over words/sentences in books according to rules I specify, would that be a violation of copyright? If all I do with the book is read it myself, I think clearly not.
@campuscodi This is insane... and a demonstration of absolute lack of knowledge from the court "altering the code..." where even to start
I guess it is time for everybody to start using Pi-Hole pi - or AdGuard if you're using #homeAssistant
@campuscodi Is it really ad blockers in general or only those with commercial exceptions?
All this back and forth in the German courts so far was about the idiots who made an ad blockers with exceptions for their sponsors.
All this back and forth in the German courts so far was about the idiots who made an ad blockers with exceptions for their sponsors.
@campuscodi "Hamburg court can provide more detail regarding which part of the website (such as bytecode or object code) is altered by ad blockers, whether this code is protected by copyright,".
So essentially their argument is blocking a URL request is the same as altering code?
With that logic I am going to start my own restaurant, and sue every customer that doesn't order every single item on the menu, every time they visit.
So essentially their argument is blocking a URL request is the same as altering code?
With that logic I am going to start my own restaurant, and sue every customer that doesn't order every single item on the menu, every time they visit.
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