Sourcepoint: Former Googler Will Sell Tech to Punch Through Ad Blockers

Re:Sourcepoint: Former Googler Will Sell Tech to Punch Throu... by logn on Thursday June 18, 2015 @07:54PM (#9742300)

The article described essentially four options for the user after Sourcepoint detects an ad blocker:

1. encourage users to enable ads on publisher's site

2. register an account with the publisher for free

3. view certain number of ads to unblock publisher's site

4. publishers can also circumvent the ad-blocking

I assume the opt-in would happen in option 2. It's option 4 that I think is illegal.

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Re:Sourcepoint: Former Googler Will Sell Tech to Punch Throu... by DannyBee on Friday June 19, 2015 @11:33AM (#9745445)

FWIW: I don't believe option 4 is illegal under any current criminal law i'm aware of.

Also, even if option 4 happened after the opt-in, you may get bound to a TOS or something that allows them to do it, etc.

Note also that all of this may run afoul of various civil codes, of course (it's hard to say, a lot of them are pretty vague, so until someone tries it, it's not easy to say what the actual end result would be)

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