Ok... Quick poll. If you had to pick one. Would you choose ads on legitimate sites? Or, would you allow them to mine cryptocurrency in your browser with permission with no ads? Lets say <10% CPU.
Stop serving content to all 10000 users behind the same carrier-grade-NAT ip?
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Nah, just those who send a particular cookie. That'll stop most script kiddies. The rest are just too smart to go around any client side blocks. Users like you and me probably. The thing is, if the number of users who do that grows too big, everything is going to be paywall'd.
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Adblockers just need to automate blocking that cookie. Future browsers will not even support cookies except on sites you opt-in to having a persistent context on. Only reason ads have any leverage is that browsers made lots of design mistakes. They will be fixed.
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And when the cookie block day comes, expect to see a lot of "hey uh we need to you to log in and because our system is legacy, it needs cookies" style popups. And there's always IndexedDB, localStorage and so on that you can send manually. Cookies just tend to go automatically.
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