18.05.2015 - 18:23 [ Techdirt ]

European Mobile Networks Plan To Block Ads, Not For Your Safety, But To Mess With Google

So things just keep getting stranger and stranger online. A bunch of mobile operators are apparently planning to start automatically blocking all mobile ads. Now, for those of you who hate ads online, this might seem like a good thing, but it is not. If you want to disable ads on your own, that should be your call. In fact, as we‘ve noted before, we think people on the web have every right to install their own ad blockers, and we find it ridiculous when people argue that ad blocking is some form of „theft.“

But this is different… and this is dangerous.