Actually, I wouldn’t mind if the Pinkertons were replaced by AI. Would serve them right.

It’s more likely to be out of work security guards in their police cosplay.

At this point ad blocking is more about security and optimization than stopping ads themselves. If a site wants to run some banner ads to pay for costs, I have nothing against it, but once Javascript is involved, that just becomes a vulnerability for attack.

Also, websites that bury their content in layers of overlay and popup ads with loud audio and several unrelated videos can go fuck themselves.

Because they are at the end of their growth phase and have entered their squeeze until dead phase.

The biggest risk would be IoT devices.

The rebuttal wasn’t as comforting as some are making it out to be. They seem to be more interested in the semantics of it not being a backdoor tied to a specific product, which appears to be true.

Rather it is a potential for vulnerability that exists in all wireless implementation, which seems to me to be a bigger issue.