Google paid AdBlock Plus to get its ads whitelisted

Re:Google paid AdBlock Plus to get its ads whitelisted by enraged_camel on Friday July 05, 2013 @07:07PM (#5997145)

The TV networks tried to make the exact same argument when they sued TiVO, but got shut down by the courts.

Bottom line: nobody can be forced into seeing ads.

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Re:Google paid AdBlock Plus to get its ads whitelisted by mahranch on Saturday July 06, 2013 @08:07PM (#6000514)

I can't find anything about the Tivo case being settled. On the wikipedia page for commercial skipping, the only court case is one with ReplayTV, which didn't finish due to the company going bankrupt.

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Re:Google paid AdBlock Plus to get its ads whitelisted by kbenson on Friday July 05, 2013 @09:44PM (#5997583)

I can't seem to locate this lawsuit. Do you have information on it? I'm interested in seeing exactly what the decision was.

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Re:Google paid AdBlock Plus to get its ads whitelisted by recursive on Friday July 05, 2013 @08:06PM (#5997288)

And no ad blocking service can be forced to block all the ads you want them to.

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