In the beginning was the web, and it was good. Content came along. Some was good, some was cats. Then paid sites with sign-up. Then search engines. Then ads.
Pretty soon folks thought "I not only own this content, I own how it will be presented to the end user. If I choose to add in cats, or Flash ads, or whatnot? They're stuck consuming it. I own everything about the content from the server to the mind of the person consuming it, the entire pipe."
Many people did not like this idea. Ads were malicious, they installed malware. The practice of using ads on content caused sites to track users like lab rats. Armies of people majoring in psychology were hired to try to make the rats do more of what we wanted them to do.
Ad blockers were born. Then anti-ad-blockers. Then headless browsers. Now anti-headeless browsers.
It's just a huge waste of time and energy. The model is broken, and no amount of secret hacker ninja shit is going to make it work. You want to know where we'll end up? We'll end up with multiple VMs, each with a statistically common setup, each consuming content on the web looking just like a human doing it. (We'll be able to do that by tracking actual humans as they consume content). But nobody will be looking at those VMs. Instead, those invisible screens will be read by image recognition software which will then condense what's on there and send the results back to whoever wants it.
Content providers will never win at this. Nor should they. Instead, we're just going to sink billions into a busted-ass business model over the next couple of decades throwing good money after bad.
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