Two things about adblock that I've noticed: 1. Apps like Vanced are probably going to become necessary once first-party tracking and ads start being adopted. Y

Two things about adblock that I've noticed: 1. Apps like Vanced are probably going to become necessary once first-party tracking and ads start being adopted. YouTube has proven that if there's enough incentive, DNS-based adblocking like pi-hole can be rendered useless. But the fact that Vanced is a reverse-engineered application means that the barrier to entry for contributing is significantly higher than if a runtime more open to extensibility were used, like the browser's. A hypothetical shift to WASM applications might end up becoming another step in such an arms race. 2. AdBlock is likely the only reason I've spent hundreds more hours on YouTube that I wouldn't have if I were forced to watch ads. I consider ads a waste of time like many people, but my degree of distaste for them has led me to reflexively back out of any service where adblock is not an option. An example of this is Twitch, where the ads are directly injected into the video stream. As a result, I don't use Twitch. I have to wonder how many hours of time this has saved me in the long run, because I have a susceptibility to some of the content their algorithm recommends me. If every known adblock method is ultimately defeated in some hypothetical timeline, I'm reasonably certain that my distaste for ads will win out against my addiction to browsing article headlines. I have to wonder where all my newly restored attention away from the Internet would go in that case, and if I would ultimately turn out to be a happier person.