is adblock legal
IDG News Service. For the second time in two months a German court has ruled that Adblock Plus, the browser extension for filtering ads, is legal. On Wednesday the Munich Regional Court ruled against media companies ProSiebenSat1 and IP Deutschland, the company behind media group RTL.he companies sued Eyeo, the company behind Adblock Plus, and wanted the court to ban the distribution of the free ad-blocking software, claiming it hurts their ad-based business model. Adblock Plus lets users block annoying ads.