ublock origin is great and so don't take this the wrong way but I've never understood why it doesn't have a they-live mode where instead of removing the ads altogether they get rendered as greyscale messages like "OBEY" / "CONSUME" / "DO NOT QUESTION AUTHORITY"

@technomancy that's kind of brilliant because ads are looked for by the site, to make sure they are not being blocked and that they are rendered

In which case you could do a number of Javascript or sandboxing tricks to let the ad through but, as slyly as possible, alter it in ways that the final rendering is different, not removed