by francopoli

I cannot wait to see the video of this speech.

And then he gets serious. Addressing why the Adblock Plus team were banned from the conference, Rothenburg accuses them of “subverting freedom of the press” and “operating a business model predicated on censorship of content”. He also quoted a 2013 article by German blogger Sascha Pallenberg which characterised the AdBlock Plus team as “a mafia-like advertising network”.