[The Next Web] The legal challenge against adblocking is failing over and over

Wherever you stand on the adblocking debate – often somewhere between the protection of people’s rights not to be bombarded or a destroyer of jobs and industries – there’s no getting around the fact that if you’re anti-adblocking, you’re on the consistently losing side, legally speaking. According to a statement from Adblock Plus, it’s just won its fifth legal challenge in court in Germany, this time against the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung. The crux of most of the complaints against Adblock Plus specifically (rather than all adblockers in general) is the company’s use of an Acceptable Ads program – a whitelist that…

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