Ads are targeted with machine learning, the only possible long term defence is fighting back with machine learning. It's already been done and both sides will s

Ads are targeted with machine learning, the only possible long term defence is fighting back with machine learning. It's already been done and both sides will still improve over the next few years. But in the end, much like spam, online ads will go away, automatically. On the tech side, using character based convolutional networks already frees the defense from writing endless rules, image ads can be nuked with another convnet, there's no technological lock.