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sorry for butchering the article title, I've edited my post to try and reflect the intention of article

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[-] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 6 hours ago

If I understand it correctly, they're arguing that any unauthorized "modification of the computer program" (i.e. the web page) is a copyright violation.

This wouldn't only affect adblockers... this would affect any browser feature, extension, or user script that modifies the page in any way, shape, or form... translators, easy reading modes, CSS modifiers (e.g., dark mode for pages that don't have it, or anything that improves readability for people with vision problems), probably screen readers...

This would essentially turn web browsers into the HTML equivalent of PDF readers, without any of the customisability that's been standard for decades...

[-] killabeezio@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 hours ago

Yeah, it's actually really really stupid. If they say this is true, then you can say a website is changing the code of the actual browser as well

[-] sad_detective_man@leminal.space 4 points 6 hours ago

yeah I don't know how German courts work but if rulings set precedents then people could run wild with this

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