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In the future webpages will be streamed from a server and we will only see a video stream. No ad block will be possible as the whole page will just be a single html canvas (or some new stream element). It will suck.
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Google has to be careful for how it treads for anti-trust reasons. For instance Google has a blocker for "annoying ads" in Chrome. Needless to say it is never going to block an annoying ad that is served by Google. The whole thing is asking for a lawsuit. If Google is aggressive against adblockers it similarly becomes a target in a way it would be if there were 4 major players that each got 20% of the market and then…
> The most interesting thing happening in online advertising today is the pitch made by the video or podcast creator that is embedded in the content. Harder to block, so I manually skip it...