[badestrand]

Traditional news media and print media are really strong in Germany (and for example Spain).

They also made laws happen that limit how Google can link to news sites to prevent Google News from stealing readers.

And they tried to make Google pay each time a user clicks a link that leads to a German news site.

Also there are surcharges on printers (around $50 or so per piece), laptops etc because you might copy copyright-protected texts with it.

And the German online news websites know they lose a lot of money to adblockers so of course they want to ban them.

[SpaceManNabs]

anti free speech stuff like this is why i only bring burner phones into europe.

[anthk]

That's just Germany. Europe is not a country.

[SpaceManNabs]

Britain too

[anthk]

And yet, Dillo, Lynx, Links, and services like gemi://gemi.dev work perfectly fine.

The same with hosts files: https://github.com/stevenblack/hosts

Good luck banning Unix config files. My machine, my rules.