2/Preventing ad-blocking would be a huge blow to German cybersecurity and privacy. There are critical security & privacy reasons to not blindly run all code from a site. Like stripping out dangerous code & malvertising. Or blocking unwanted trackers.
3/Defining HTML/CSS as a protected computer program will quickly lead to absurdities Potential infringements? -Screen readers for the blind -Dark mode extensions -Displaying snippets of code in a university class -Inspecting & modifying code in your own browser -Website translators On and on...
4/ I'm not a lawyer but this mindblowingly misguided attempt to redefine HTML/CSS could force a radically break everything... From web search to code on GitHub to page excerpts in search results to @waybackmachine.bsky.social @archive.org and so much more... blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/20...
5/ And by the way, hacking risks from the online advertising are documented. Any attempt to force Germans to run all of the code on a website without consideration for their privacy and security rights and needs will end poorly. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
6/ Here's the court case. translate with Google while you still can ;) I hope the German court seeks expert opinions from the BND, BfV and others. Perhaps they could also inquire whether these institutions already block ads to protect national security? www.bundesgerichtshof.de/SharedDocs/P...
7/ Oh, and as @mozilla.org points out: only one country has banned ad-blockers. #China. Which would be terrible company for #Germany.
I'm also not a lawyer, but how can Axel Springer even attempt to prohibit ad-blockers, an overall client-side right, instead of restricting their own server-side content by simply saying "You cannot display our content with an ad-blocker"? ... which is there right.
Because they are fuckers. Wouldn‘t be surprised if this isn‘t about AS‘s ads at all, but „better“ user tracking.