<story><title>Court outlaws German Weather Service&apos;s free weather app</title><url>https://www.dw.com/en/court-outlaws-german-weather-services-free-weather-app/a-52735502</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SimeVidas</author><text>&amp;gt; The German Weather Service (DWD) will no longer be allowed to provide general weather forecasts in a free mobile phone app. … [DWD] will only be permitted to offer extreme weather warnings for free and … a DWD app offering general weather forecasts must contain advertisements or be purchased by users.&lt;p&gt;The government service is forced to put ads in its free app. WTF?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tpetry</author><text>We‘ve got a problem in germany with anything spent for by tax money. If something is done by tax money and some private company is doing the same with their own money the will go to court because the other one has an unfair advantage.&lt;p&gt;For example we have some tv channels being run by tax money (not absolutely correct, its a forced pay for everyone not included in taxes but its basically the same) without any ads. Any many free private channels fiddled with ad pauses. The tax ones wanted to put their movies online in a netflix style for free long before netflix but the private ones wonnin court because it would be unfair. Nowadays they are allowed to put them online but only for 30 days after airing in tv, everything else would be unfair to the real low-quality free channels...</text></comment>
<story><title>Court outlaws German Weather Service&apos;s free weather app</title><url>https://www.dw.com/en/court-outlaws-german-weather-services-free-weather-app/a-52735502</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SimeVidas</author><text>&amp;gt; The German Weather Service (DWD) will no longer be allowed to provide general weather forecasts in a free mobile phone app. … [DWD] will only be permitted to offer extreme weather warnings for free and … a DWD app offering general weather forecasts must contain advertisements or be purchased by users.&lt;p&gt;The government service is forced to put ads in its free app. WTF?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>s1artibartfast</author><text>&amp;gt;or be purchased by users&lt;p&gt;Didn&amp;#x27;t the users already purchase the app with their tax dollars?&lt;p&gt;I hope they embed helpful PSAs as adds.</text></comment>