Eyeo has been feuding with Axel Springer since 2015, when the company sued eyeo, claiming the German press has a constitutional right to serve ads to its readers. Eyeo won the case. The following year, Axel Springer appealed; it lost, but was granted an exception to an Adblock Plus rule that says larger entities have to pay a fee to get ads that meet certain criteria whitelisted—meaning that, although Axel Springer is a large company that “owns a majority of the daily newspapers in Germany,” it wouldn’t have to pay. The Supreme Court ruling also revokes that exception …
