{"id":220375,"date":"2025-08-19T04:16:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/mozilla-warns-germany-could-soon-declare-ad-blockers-illegal"},"modified":"2025-08-19T04:16:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:16:40","slug":"mozilla-warns-germany-could-soon-declare-ad-blockers-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/mozilla-warns-germany-could-soon-declare-ad-blockers-illegal","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mozilla-warns-germany-could-soon-declare-sad-blockers-illegal.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A recent ruling from Germany\u2019s Federal Supreme Court (BGH) has revived a legal battle over whether browser-based ad blockers infringe copyright, raising fears about a potential ban of the tools in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The case stems from online media company Axel Springer\u2019s lawsuit against Eyeo \u2014 the maker of the popular Adblock Plus browser extension.<\/p>\n<p>Axel Springer says that ad blockers threaten its revenue generation model and frames website execution inside web browsers as a copyright violation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent ruling from Germany\u2019s Federal Supreme Court (BGH) has revived a legal battle over whether browser-based ad blockers infringe copyright, raising fears about a potential ban of the tools in the country. The case stems from online media company Axel Springer\u2019s lawsuit against Eyeo \u2014 the maker of the popular Adblock Plus browser extension. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1496],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}