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In general sense, because of the halting problem.

JavaScript is Turing-complete. Ad blockers work by ensuring that some parts of the site are selectively not loaded or not executed. Ad blocker detectors can check whether some code was executed. Halting problem prevents ad blockers from being able to counter all such checks in the general case. So it's not even worth starting that arms race.



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