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Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 3 days ago by KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 31 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

This is grounded in the assertion that a website’s HTML/CSS is a protected computer program that an ad blocker intervenes in the in-memory execution structures (DOM, CSSOM, rendering tree), this constituting unlawful reproduction and modification.

This is ridiculous... the in-memory structures are highly browser dependent, the browser is the one controlling how the DOM is represented in memory.. it would imply that opening the website AT ALL in a different version of the exact specific one they target or with a different set of specific features/settings would also be a violation, since the memory structure would likely be different too.

At that point, they might as well just ask for their website to not be visited at all.

[–] chillhelm@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

By that same logic I could claim that SHOWING me an ad by circumventing my ad blocker is interfering with the in memory execution of my ad blocker. Wtf.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 4 points 3 days ago

or mandate which program can be used to access the page.

like an app.