[zombees]

There is one important difference with comparing MDY to adblock though. MDY made software specifically for WoW. Adblock does not make software specifically to target Business Insider or anyone else. Further, if this precedent was set, you could possibly go after people using out of date browsers that can't display your ad content perfectly or viewing text only or a million other ways in which ads wouldn't be left in their pristine state.

[bryanlarsen]

Those million other ways are missing two important principles of tortuous intereference:

- intent

- knowledge that they're interfering with a contract.

[zombees]

Yes, but you could probably make a case for sending DMCA takedowns to the chromium repo because someone doesn't like that the old versions "circumvent" the ads at which point the ball is in their court. If they fail to take action, they now have knowledge and potentially "intent"

[DanBlake]

Adblockers have specific rules for specific websites. In fact, adblock plus even has a special rule set to bypass blocks set up by websites to stop adblock users.

[kllrnohj]

Adblocks work by maintaining white/black lists. As such, they inherently are targeting specific URLs.

[zombees]

The url's in the lists are (mostly) ad companies though. It just doesn't send the http requests to url's on the list. I could set up a website out of the blue and have it serve ads that would be successfully blocked by any adblock on day one without it knowing about my site specifically