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Re:Show HN: Pesky Adblock – Blocks site access to visitors w... by cortesoft on Saturday July 07, 2018 @01:12AM (#17477141)
No, it is a contract. There are prices on the menu, and you are agreeing to that price when you ask for the item. Not all contracts need to be signed, but they have to be somehow agreed to.
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Re:Show HN: Pesky Adblock – Blocks site access to visitors w... by cm2012 on Saturday July 07, 2018 @01:23AM (#17477178)
Every website you visit has TOS. Facebook in particular has extremely clear TOS, written in plain English, that everyone consents to. In Europe, most websites explicitly ask for consent now. Doesn't seem very different to me.
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Re:Show HN: Pesky Adblock – Blocks site access to visitors w... by ubernostrum on Saturday July 07, 2018 @01:48AM (#17477258)
And all of those sites track you before you've even had a chance to see their terms.

Facebook infamously tracked people who'd never had Facebook accounts (and therefore had never agreed to Facebook's ToS), and now claims not to, but who knows?

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Re:Show HN: Pesky Adblock – Blocks site access to visitors w... by GW150914 on Saturday July 07, 2018 @07:05PM (#17481160)
They can take my use of ad and script blocking as implicit rejection of the terms of their contract, and they’re free to deny me service. If they don’t, I’m not obliged to do it for them.
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Re:Show HN: Pesky Adblock – Blocks site access to visitors w... by crtasm on Saturday July 07, 2018 @07:57AM (#17478123)
As I understand it contracts fall under law, TOS fall under nothing except maybe getting kicked off the platform.
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Re:Show HN: Pesky Adblock – Blocks site access to visitors w... by gsich on Saturday July 07, 2018 @01:31AM (#17477205)
no need to accept those.
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