Adblock Plus is celebrating another significant legal victory after one of Germany’s biggest newspapers, Süddeutsche Zeitung, had its lawsuit against the company’s Acceptable Ads initiative thrown out.
A Munich court ruled in favour of Adblock Plus after the paper challenged the company’s adblocking software and its Acceptable Ads initiative.
It marks the fifth successive legal victory for Adblock Plus in Germany, following successful legal battles against Axel Springer, RTL Interactive, ProSieben, Sat1 and Zeit and Handelsblatt.
The German software company announced the outcome in a blog post titled: “Five and oh … look, another lawsuit upholds users’ rights online.”
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Source: The Drum
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