Comment by kelnos
5 years ago
I think the situation is actually exactly like the Spamhaus case you describe: it wouldn't be the browser user that sues, but the blocked website's owner. The website's owner need not have accepted any kind of agreement from the browser maker in order to be harmed by the blocklist.
Perhaps the website would sue the author of the list.
That does not explain why this comment suggests a browser author was afraid to use the list.
The browser author could easily require the list author to agree that the browser author has no obligations to the list author if the list author gets sued by a website, and the list author must idemnify the browser author if the browser author is named in any suit over the list. The list author must assume all the risk.