It may be illegal to block ad blockers in the EU

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It may be illegal to block ad blockers in the EU

EditorialGuy

12:47 am on Apr 30, 2016 (gmt 0)

Have you been giving the bird to visitors who use ad-blockers? You might want to think twice.

The Register reports that detecting ad-blockers to stop ad-blocker users from reading your pages may violate EU cookie laws: "...under EU law in force since May 2011, people must give their consent before an anti-ad-blocker script can run and hide content on a page."

[theregister.co.uk...]

tangor

6:22 am on Apr 30, 2016 (gmt 0)

Previously reported here:

Ad-blocker blocking websites face legal peril at hands of privacy bods
[webmasterworld.com...]

trebuchet

6:27 am on Apr 30, 2016 (gmt 0)

Have you been giving the bird to visitors who use ad-blockers? You might want to think twice.

After reading that, I thought about it for about 10 seconds. Which was about five seconds more than it deserved.