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Which means eventually they will do something desperate like using WASM on the all pages or requiring DRM trusted by a TPM chip.

And adblockers won't work anymore.

We are loosing control over the client a little bit more everyday, and given the new generation know only locked down devices, they don't even notice.

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Just curious, what more can they do with WASM to prevent ad blockers? Can they prevent an extension that blacks out the ad and waits until it plays out for example?

Create your own VM for execution and rendering, then make sure it runs only trusted signed code. Skip the dom and js entirely.

It's a black box, so ad blockers wouldn't be able to target anything in there without very hard reverse engineering.

We know it's possible because the community can hack the playstation and xbox. We also know it takes a lot of time and resources.

Unlike the consoles, they can just upload a new blob and suddenly, it becomes so expensive for adblock to keep up we lose it.

It will also be super expensive for google, but they can afford it.

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