I often see the sentiment that YouTube and adblockers will be forever locked in a cat-and-mouse game. However, for many years now, Twitch has entirely eliminated adblocking on desktop web.
What is stopping YouTube from replicating Twitch’s advertising strategy of embedding ads directly into their videos?
Nope.
Piracy/adtech evasion is actually a very similar paradigm to infosec/security: you have to succeed all the time, always; the attackers/exploiters only have to succeed once, and there’s a lot more attackers than your company has employees, let alone security specialists.
Indeed, it’s why Nintendo will never win the war against piracy, the Pirates only have to break the code once. I’m sure Nintendo could update it to make it harder to crack, but it will never be impossible to crack. And it’s not like they are going to support the Nintendo switch forever. Eventually everybody is getting there rare shiny event Pokemon and their smash mods to make Waluigi and whoever the meme character of the week is playable