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Livejournal Bans Ad-Blocking Software

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the no-blocking-for-you dept.

Anonymous Emo writes "The community/blogging site LiveJournal recently introduced ads on some pages for free users. More interestingly, they also added a new restriction to their TOS (XVI 17 b.) banning users from using or providing ad-blocking software. The new TOS also permits them to immediately terminate the account of anyone they catch doing this."

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  1. Re:You have to read the entire contract by schon · · Score: 1, Troll

    If you are blocking (not hiding) ads and they serve the ads themselves it should be feasible for them to notice that you did n ot in fact download all the content of the page.

    So... LJ will start discriminating against blind people who use screen readers (which are often set to not download graphics.)