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Because if you do that, someone will fork your codebase, and patch it out. Or, failing that, code a new adblocker from scratch, without said feature. If you're

Because if you do that, someone will fork your codebase, and patch it out. Or, failing that, code a new adblocker from scratch, without said feature. If you're talking about giving legal power to websites' ToS to define what software may parse the data you download from their servers before/after rendering it to you, you're opening a gigantic can of worms, and I don't think most users would be particularly happy with that.

hoodoof 10y ago
If a website excludes adblockers, then any commercial company associated with an adblocker is legally exposed is it not? Seems reasonable to me that the adblocker should act responsibly and block entire sites where the TOS prohibits its use. Not hard for sites to set something in robots.txt to say "no adblockers allowed"
- viraptor 10y ago
  > If a website excludes adblockers, then any commercial company associated with an adblocker is legally exposed is it not? This is not true in any country at the moment as far as I know. There's some initial stupidness in the US like https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/07/12/9th-circuit-its-a-federal-crime-to-visit-a-website-after-being-told-not-to-visit-it/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201... , but in practice that's going to be disputed in courts many times before they agree on some final version. Especially since there's a related recent ruling (can't find the article now) which basically said - if your ToS are too complex and people are unlikely to understand all the details, they're not bound by it.