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Ariadne Conill shares
some experience of working in the online advertising industry.

The cycle of patching on both sides is ongoing to this day. A
friend of mine on Twitter referred to this tug-of-war as “core
war,” which is an apt description: all of the involved actors are
trying to patch each other out of being able to commit or detect
subterfuge, and your browser gets slower and slower as more
mitigations and countermeasures are layered on. If you’re not using
an ad blocker yet, stop reading this, and install one: your browser
will suddenly be a lot more performant.