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They don't have to win. All they have to do is stay ahead well enough to maintain a large target audience that can't be bothered to use the latest blocking tech
by golemotron 10y ago
They don't have to win. All they have to do is stay ahead well enough to maintain a large target audience that can't be bothered to use the latest blocking technologies.
Absolute security is impossible but that doesn't keep it from being an arms race that has some sort of equilibrium. Ad blocking has the same qualities.
- waterphone 10y agoAdblockers automatically update. Users won't have to do anything, and as soon as someone figures out how to bypass the ads and the list updates, everyone using an adblocker will benefit immediately.