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marvion

Weird choice of this site to mention their sources, but not linking them.

- Heise reported this originally: https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Fritzboxen-AVM-verliert-Pat...

- Golem basically summarized the Heise article: https://www.golem.de/news/patentklagen-avm-droht-vertriebsve...

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Also the first title in the body is nonsense:

> AVM threatens to ban the sale of Fritzbox routers

So AVM is threatening to ban the sale of their own product?

This looks like some SEO spam site with AI generated crap sprinkled on top.

>So AVM is threatening to ban the sale of their own product?

I assume they have a huge captive domestic market that such threats are effective. Imagine VW threatening to ban the sale of the Golf

In this case, the Heise article is pretty clear that AVM is threatened with a sales ban, not that AVM itself is threatening one.

And the article seems to be a stolen version of this German one:

https://www.pcgameshardware.de/Internet-Thema-34041/News/AVM...

Yeah @dang maybe possible to replace the submission link with the original article passed through translate, e.g. https://www-pcgameshardware-de.translate.goog/Internet-Thema... ?

That would explain the wonky headline: "AVM droht ..." means "AVM is threatened with ..." but could be misread as "AVM threatens ..." ("AVM droht mit ..." or "AVM droht: ..."), especially in a cheap/automated translation.

The PCGH article references the golem article which references the heise article.

Appreciate the links. Although one is in German and the other is also in German and seems to be behind a paywall.

As an aside, it is common for news sites to only provide links back to their own earlier articles (even when the connection to the present story is tenuous at best), never to sources or extra information outside of their web property. Unfortunately it is not a weird choice, it's an industry-wide standard practice.

See my sibling comment - you can also click the left button ("Akzeptieren und weiter"), which just is your consent to see advertisement, it's a soft paywall (paying makes ads go away).

You have to consent to invasive tracking cookies or pay (isn't that against the GDPR?)

> isn't that against the GDPR?

It is.

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