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Re:Adblock Radio: An adblocker for live radio streams and po... by Scirra_Tom on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @08:41AM (#21059433)
> It's perfectly fine to block them.

I think there were some legal rulings IIRC in the UK regarding software to auto mute/block/skip ads on TV/Radio, but for the life of my can't find them.

If it was ruled illegal, then it being "perfectly fine to block them" might be correct ethically but not legally, although I suspect the details of implementation might be the important point.

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Re:Adblock Radio: An adblocker for live radio streams and po... by mantap on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @09:07AM (#21059696)
If it's illegal to mute ads automatically, is it therefore illegal to mute them manually? How can automating a human function be illegal? Computers don't have legal capacity they simply do what humans tell them to. All computer actions are ultimately human actions, I don't see how they can draw a distinction between the two cases.
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Re:Adblock Radio: An adblocker for live radio streams and po... by TeMPOraL on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @08:49AM (#21059507)
That's a very interesting development. If you ever find those ruling, could you send me a message with links to them?
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