Conill: an inside look into the illicit ad industry

Ariadne Conill sharessome experience of working in the online advertising industry.

The cycle of patching on both sides is ongoing to this day. Afriend of mine on Twitter referred to this tug-of-war as corewar," which is an apt description: all of the involved actors aretrying to patch each other out of being able to commit or detectsubterfuge, and your browser gets slower and slower as moremitigations and countermeasures are layered on. If you're not usingan ad blocker yet, stop reading this, and install one: your browserwill suddenly be a lot more performant.