⚠️ Mozilla: Is Germany on the Brink of Banning Ad Blockers? User Freedom, Privacy, and Security Is At Risk.

｢ The BGH (as the Federal Supreme Court is known) called for a new hearing so that the 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, and under what conditions the interference might be justified ｣

https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2025/08/14/is-germany-on-the-brink-of-banning-ad-blockers-user-freedom-privacy-and-security-is-at-risk/

#adblocking #privacy

> "Some of these forced changes in consumption patterns are often explained away by manufacturers and retailers alike with the phrase "Nobody wants that anymore." Laptops with 4:3 or 5:4 screens, for example. Or slightly bulkier laptops but with decent thermal design. Or a laptop with a DVD player that will let me watch one of the many movies I own that's not available on a streaming service."

https://www.datagubbe.se/lessads/

#ads #adblocking #tech

> "Some of these forced changes in consumption patterns are often explained away by manufacturers and retailers alike with the phrase "Nobody wants that anymore." Laptops with 4:3 or 5:4 screens, for example. Or slightly bulkier laptops but with decent thermal design. Or a laptop with a DVD player that will let me watch one of the many movies I own that's not available on a streaming service."

https://www.datagubbe.se/lessads/

#ads #adblocking #tech

👀 YouTube’s new anti-adblock measures

｢ One thing that people have ran into is “fake buffering”, where videos will take a while to load due to a lot of buffering, but only at the very start of the video (there’s no mid-video fake buffering). As I’ll explain, the fake buffering is 80% of the length of the ads you would’ve seen, so even with fake buffering you’re still saving time using an adblocker ｣

https://iter.ca/post/yt-adblock/

#youtube #adblocking #privacy

PSA for anyone using uBlock Origin with the urlhaus filter - the latest update breaks GitHub. See https://gitlab.com/malware-filter/urlhaus-filter/-/issues/110.

#ublock_origin #github #adblocking