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minus-squareNewNewAugustEast@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·edit-21 day agoYeah I am pretty pissed off that this article is conflating issues by even suggesting this. The legal grey area they are alluding to is ad blocking. I don’t think it’s grey but that has to be what they are saying. But the article is about third party apps and Google being a fuckwit. This waters down the discussion, and is a unnecessary diversion.
minus-squareDudeImMacGyver@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up21·1 day agoAd blocking isn’t even a legal grey area, it’s legal (as it should be, ads are a major attack vector for malware and scams).
minus-squareNewNewAugustEast@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 day agoI agree with you, yet I am sure there are lawyers who will argue that it would be against their terms of service. I am with the old school crowd: you put stuff on the internet however you like, and I will render it however I like.
minus-squareDudeImMacGyver@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 day agoTheir TOS can get fucked and it’s certainly not law: They’re free to deny service or ban users if they like, but I’m sure that’d go over like a lead balloon.
Yeah I am pretty pissed off that this article is conflating issues by even suggesting this.
The legal grey area they are alluding to is ad blocking. I don’t think it’s grey but that has to be what they are saying.
But the article is about third party apps and Google being a fuckwit.
This waters down the discussion, and is a unnecessary diversion.
Ad blocking isn’t even a legal grey area, it’s legal (as it should be, ads are a major attack vector for malware and scams).
I agree with you, yet I am sure there are lawyers who will argue that it would be against their terms of service.
I am with the old school crowd: you put stuff on the internet however you like, and I will render it however I like.
Their TOS can get fucked and it’s certainly not law: They’re free to deny service or ban users if they like, but I’m sure that’d go over like a lead balloon.