Legality and enforceability of "You cannot post any links to our website"

[ctrlbrk]

I was checking a site's T&C and I noticed the following clause:

Any link to this Web Site without our written permission is prohibited. Notwithstanding authorisation to link to this Web Site, linking to any page other than the initial start page is prohibited.

Then I did some research and realised that dozens of websites use the same (or similar) language.

My questions

1. The moment I post here on UKBF (say) any content from any of those websites I'm supposedly in breach of their terms. How is this enforceable?
2. Some of these sites provide an RSS feed which does not just point to their webpage. Clicking on a link resulting from using their own RSS feed would be a breach of their Terms, surely?
3. What could such a language possibly protect against?

(mods this could either be in Legal or IT/websites, please move as appropriate, thanks)

 

[DontAsk]

It's not enfoceable. The ECJ apparently ruled as such in 2014.

It's done by lawyers or web developers who have no idea how the web really works. Probably also a lot of brain dead plagiarism of other web sites'' Ts&Cs.

Search for such a site with Google. Inform the site that Google broke their Ts&Cs and invite them to sue Google.

 

[ctrlbrk]

It's not enfoceable. The ECJ apparently ruled as such in 2014.

Thanks, do you have a link for that?

 

[DontAsk]

It's easily findable in your favourite search engine, but https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2014-02/cp140020en.pdf

 

[DontAsk]

Search for such a site with Google. Inform the site that Google broke their Ts&Cs and invite them to sue Google.

It occurred to me that some dimwit may have tried that. I didn't find anything but I did find an old story that may explain the practice https://www.seroundtable.com/linkage-lawsuit-15131.html

 

[ctrlbrk]

It occurred to me that some dimwit may have tried that. I didn't find anything but I did find an old story that may explain the practice https://www.seroundtable.com/linkage-lawsuit-15131.html

Thanks. so that would be the rationale.