Terminal with w3m - all text visible including the 'skip to content' accessibility link at the top of each page. Appears to be full text of articles (my German is sadly quite limited).
Yes, I agree, some kind of arms race will no doubt commence.
Worst case: we lose all bandwidth winnings, and have to simulate functioning ads to content distributors.
P.S.: NoScript blocks the Javascript warning for me, unless I allow the bild.de domain. The adblock-blocker only works with NoScript fully disabled. I'm using Firefox with uBlock and NoScript.
There's a huge world out there most people have never heard of most things. One could say "Beatles? I've never heard of them? Or AFX? Never heard of him" but that wouldn't make them unimportant.
Springer is huge in its business.
My gut tells me that by the holiday season we'll see more major sites blocking ad-blockers.
And, of course, we'll just use different tools. Or better yet, change our browser signatures. After all, it's a courtesy to content providers for consumers to tell them what kinds of tools they're using. That courtesy can be rescinded.
This entire spy vs. spy scenario makes me sad. I'm very sorry that the internet thought that folks walking by a storefront looking at your sales copy was a monetizable event. It is not. It was simply a fluke of the way the default technology was constructed.
And now I fully expect to see large, well-funded players enter the fray -- on the side of content providers. That's also a bad thing. Going to be a lot of pain before this gets sorted out.