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They create a better ad, so they create a better adblock, which forces them to discover anti-adblock methods, which forces adblocker's to adapt, which forces anti-adblocker's to adapt, ad infinitum.
This isn't anything new. Of course you can circumvent these blocks, but they can always adapt to make them useful again. It's not a good argument at all.
Yes, i point out whackamole in my comment. It's a completely useless critique of tor/briar because there is no alternative which cannot also be critiqued like this, and there can never be.
you might as well say "well the problem with keyboards is that someone needs to ship it to you."