Privacy campaigner Hanff sends cease-and-desist letter to IDG over adblockers

John Leonard
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EU law may mean that circumventing adblockers is illegal, claims Hanff

Privacy campaigner and advocate Alexander Hanff has sent a cease and desist letter to publisher IDG threatening it with legal action should it fail to stop circumventing adblockers, which he mainta...

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