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voldothegr8 posted...

I really do wonder if anyone over there has sat down and done some real cost analysis over the situation. Because apparently they feel like driving away visits and paying an entire team dedicated to breaking ad blockers is still more profitable in the long run.

I don't have anything more substantial than anecdote.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/adblocking-how-about-nah

You can't enable a culture of ad rejection, though. It would gut the amount of content out there is all of it had to be paid directly. It's arguable that the bulk of that would be shady and/or garbage anyway, but still.

The actual answer is to sell ads, instead of plopping down a handful of <script> tags and expecting it to be a magic money button. It's completely trivial to code advertising that adblockers won't block, but that would require abandoning the surveillance, and having to actually court advertisers instead of the ease of that magic money button.