Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal
Natanael@infosec.pub 6 days agoAd blockers do literally the reverse, they don’t inject anything, they sit on the outside and prevent unwanted resources from loading.
Also it’s fully legal for the end user to modify stuff on their own end. And the information in the filter about the website structure is functional, not expressive - no copyright protection of function.
Also it’s fully legal for the end user to modify stuff on their own end
Although I 100% agree with you, the whole premise of this post is that laws can change. What’s legal now is not a good basis to say “it’s legal, so it can’t be illegal later on”.
localhost001@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Agreed. By their logic, it would be illegal to write on a newspaper or cut parts out of it because that’s not how the copywrite holder intended it lol