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That won't work for ads and content being served from the same domain.

Isn't the ultimate answer in this arms race a web proxy?

I'm wondering about a two-part architecture. One part in the browser that can inspect the rendered page, and another part between the browser and the outside world, that can block individual elements. Basically re-implement the Web Request API as a web proxy.

For locked-down environments where you can't run a local proxy, the proxy could be an external service.




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