Axel Springer Goes After iOS 9 Ad Blockers in New Legal Battle

Re:Axel Springer Goes After iOS 9 Ad Blockers in New Legal B... by reustle on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @11:53AM (#10628069)

> Even Yahoo has gotten in on the action, blocking users from their email when they have AdBlock running.

Wait, really? Users can't read their email if an adblocker is installed? I can't imagine what mother would do if she ran into a error message like that while trying to check her email (but she doesn't use yahoo).

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Re:Axel Springer Goes After iOS 9 Ad Blockers in New Legal B... by FussyZeus on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @12:05PM (#10628134)

Wow really? I hadn't heard that (and never used yahoo), that's just straight crazy.

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Re:Axel Springer Goes After iOS 9 Ad Blockers in New Legal B... by uxp on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @02:16PM (#10628966)

I just logged into my all-but-abandoned yahoo account's webmail in Chrome with Ghostery set to block all, then in Chrome again but with AdBlock at default settings (and Ghostery disabled), then in Safari with uBlock (my default) and none of the sessions prevented me from seeing my mail. In fact, Ghostery and AdBlock in Chrome still displayed a Yahoo sponsored ad at the top of the list of unread messages much like GMail's top-ad. uBlock did not show that Ad.

I call false on this claim, but the sample size here is beyond insufficient to draw a wide conclusion.

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