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> We sincerely hope that Germany does not become the second jurisdiction (after China) to ban ad blockers. Given the other restrictions on internet use in Chin
by mortenjorck 1y ago
> We sincerely hope that Germany does not become the second jurisdiction (after China) to ban ad blockers.
Given the other restrictions on internet use in China, it should have come as no surprise, but I had no idea this was the law of the land there.
- guerrilla 1y agoIs it? Can we can confirmation?
- Vinnl 1y agoIn the original blog, "after China" is a link.
- Meneth 1y agoMozilla cites what appears to be an auto-translated abstract of a chinese science paper: https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=zh-CN&user=8VqyTHcAAAAJ&citation_for_view=8VqyTHcAAAAJ:YsMSGLbcyi4C https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h... "China takes a different approach to protect the ad-based business model under unfair competition law and bans ad blocking software directly by regulation. The Chinese courts held that providing ad blocking software is anti-competitive under a vague general principle of the Anti-Unfair Competition Law."
- _imnothere 1y agoHere's a few links: - https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/chinese-users-cant-use-ad-blocker-extensions/94823 https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/chinese-users-cant-use-ad-bl... - https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/tie7un/ublock_origin_is_blocked_by_mozilla_in_china/ https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/tie7un/ublock... - https://segmentfault.com/a/1190000041587638/en https://segmentfault.com/a/1190000041587638/en
- EFreethought 1y agoThe idea that people in an ostensibly communist country are forced to watch ads is ironic.