This is the same country where you have to have a permit to have an individual web site, right?

We should be awere that it is not just this one Springer. The amount of marketing associations is unreal. But they go nowhere if nobody uses ads on pages. Also companies like Google and Facebook that they exists only to put ads on peoples eyes, they should not exist. Always remember that a company pays them good money for them to put ads on your face. They get money to show you ads you don't want to make you buy crap that you don't need. Remember that.

Adblock Plus which is the topic of this lawsuit is an ad-replacer rather than an ad-blocker -- and they make money from their own ads. I can see where that annoys publishers (and marvel that they manage to get any users).

From the article:

> While it offers ad blocking software, the company generates revenue from ads through its Acceptable Ads program – advertisers pay to have ads that are "respectful, nonintrusive and relevant" exempted from filtering. Non-commercial open source projects like uBlock Origin rely on community support.

From https://eyeo.com/

> Deliver more effective ads to a unique and valuable audience of 400 million ad-filtering users.

Related:

Is Germany on the brink of banning ad blockers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44912085

Anytime a court bans something useful that the people want, there will always be a technical solution that works in complete parallel to the government narrative. Sometimes, entire markets pop up.

Use encryption, anonymity networks, cryptocurrencies, and no logs VPN's with endpoints in countries that have no authority over you. That should take care of the majority of users that require and enjoy human rights.

It’s not just ads guys. We have proprietary baseband blobs updatable OTA with DMA in our pockets. Telemetry is everywhere. Users have lost the battle for control of their computers, the entire stack is rotten.