Ad-blocking is LEGAL: German court says Ja to browser filters
Found on The Register on Tuesday, 21 April 2015
A Hamburg court today ruled the use of ad blocking is legal following a case brought against Adblock Plus by a group of German publishers.
The lawsuit claimed the company should not be allowed to block ads on websites owned by the plaintiffs: Zeit Online GmbH and Handelsblatt GmbH.
What a ridiculous idea for a lawsuit. If advertising would have gone way out of control with blinking gifs, autoplaying flash, hovering overlays, malware serving ads and tracking, users would not block them as much as they do; and should. It's basically self-defense.