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So the future is AI ad creators versus AI ad blockers, with all of us caught in the middle. Yay?!
Future is the internet populated by bots while humans try to go analog.
I'm entertained, I need a book in this universe.
That book? It's an advertisement...
Fortunately, at least in my experience, the adblockers usually win. Even if a company changes something to avoid an adblocker or force someone to turn off their adblocker (Hi, Twitch!), it's usually fixed within just a few hours at most.
It'll always be that way. For a user to see your ad you have to let them download your ad, and at that point it becomes like forcing a prisoner to write their own ransom note without your supervision and then letting them drop it in the mailbox themselves.