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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."



> 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.


Forcing people to keep their eyes open during ads happened in Black Mirror, the "15 Million Merits" episode.


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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