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Re:Firefox Preview adds support for recommended extensions, ... by userbinator on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @08:33PM (#22243165)
Will the government move to rule adblocking illegal?

In other words, make obligatory "force-feeding" of content? As in, people won't be allowed to close their eyes or cover their ears? Good luck with that...

On a less serious note: "If you outlaw those who block ads, only outlaws will block ads."

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Re:Firefox Preview adds support for recommended extensions, ... by clarry on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @03:32AM (#22244998)
> In other words, make obligatory "force-feeding" of content? As in, people won't be allowed to close their eyes or cover their ears? Good luck with that...

I mean there are already rules in place that disallow modifying software, circumventing DRM, etc.

It wouldn't be a stretch to see them disallow modifying a website's contents.

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Re:Firefox Preview adds support for recommended extensions, ... by Old_Thrashbarg on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @10:05PM (#22243647)
Forcing people to keep their eyes open during ads happened in Black Mirror, the "15 Million Merits" episode.
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Re:Firefox Preview adds support for recommended extensions, ... by lalaland1125 on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @01:57AM (#22244618)
The way this would probably work is make EULAs carry significantly more legal weight. Such that visiting a website with adblock on becomes a crime if the EULA for that website explicitly doesn't allow adblockers (with some sort of very explicit notice like those cookie buttons).
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