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Re:Many major websites are taking silent anti-ad-blocking me... by saguro on Friday December 29, 2017 @12:41AM (#16027827)
> I'm sure if you read the terms they disclose that.

As an average person, if you spend 8 hours a day reading all the terms and conditions you 'agree' to, it would take you 76 days to just read them, nevermind understand them.

http://techland.time.com/2012/03/06/youd-need-76-work-days-t...

I'm not actually sure how we ended up living in a world where those terms and conditions are legally meaningful. But I'll reiterate that they can fuck right off and there is absolutely no moral dilemma about blanket filtering of ads and trackers. As to how effective they are - effective enough to prompt anti adblocking measures such as TFA.

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Re:Many major websites are taking silent anti-ad-blocking me... by distances on Friday December 29, 2017 @08:28AM (#16029362)
> I'm not actually sure how we ended up living in a world where those terms and conditions are legally meaningful

IANAL, but as an European I'm pretty sure they aren't legally meaningful. To be honest, I don't consider any online T&C's to actually affect me, and only pay attention to explicitly mentioned licenses for content. I have no idea how far from actual reality this is.

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Re:Many major websites are taking silent anti-ad-blocking me... by hanbura on Friday December 29, 2017 @10:03AM (#16029749)
According to German law those T&C are meaningless for just browsing the website (they neither ask you to agree nor offer the possibility of reading the terms in advance). And as long as you aren't acting as a business, those "I agree" checkmarks don't bind you to any "surprising" terms (in other words: not even the law expects you to read them)

(IANAL)

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Re:Many major websites are taking silent anti-ad-blocking me... by distances on Friday December 29, 2017 @12:19PM (#16030507)
Cool, thanks for the confirmation!
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Re:Many major websites are taking silent anti-ad-blocking me... by hugo0384729109 on Friday December 29, 2017 @02:25AM (#16028216)
Would be nice to have a government standard Meta-TOS with things grouped in sections with plain language and the service specific TOS could be required to reference the sections from the standard that they want to apply, even with a simple standard system of logos.
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