I see a constant game of cat and mouse between client side adblockers and ad publishers. Does this mean that eventually all webpages will start to be served on a canvas? Or maybe something like flash based pages where the ads can't be blocked at all?
The endgame is requiring a non-extensible browser with TPM and remote attestation so that the ads can't be removed client side with a bonus layer of DRM preventing scraping the screen (at least on the same endpoint) and hiding the ads that way. But a critical mass of "content" would have to require this before it could be universally enforced. Would probably be happening with online banking already had it not been for the rise of mobile.<p>Bottom line, though: it only takes one person to copy the "content" and repost it to make all that for naught.
Sure, if they don't want to be indexed by search engines. And if they do, suddenly browsers are going to have user agents that look a lot like search engines. And failing that, anyone who tries this had best pray they're the ONLY source of that content, because otherwise their traffic will dry up like a piece of chewed up gum in the Mojave (and even if they ARE the only source, if it's worth anything at all, it'll be quoted whole and reposted all over so it can be read by people unwilling to put up with any of that).
Heads up @headbansown and @ffsanotheracct, I can only see your comments after I've updated my profile to showdead comments.<p>Possible your accounts are temporarily dead?