Ad Blockers to Become Illegal in Germany
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It's worrisome to read (not in this article) that such a law might be considered to keep/guarantee diversity in the media landscape, basically allow small players to keep earning money. With the same argument Germany got fixed book pricing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_book_price_agreement) and the TV license (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licence#Germany).
That said, I see ad-blockers similar to video recording that skip commercials: media companies fought for laws forbidding them (did they succeed?) but a large body of the population would keep using them if they had the choice.
Shhh! –don't let the facts get in the way of a good clickbait headline.
I think the only hard fact we can take from following said clickbait is that Google's German > English translator needs some work!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancillary_copyright_for_press_...