They Live Adblocker
A fork of uBlock Origin Lite that, instead of hiding cosmetically-blocked ads, replaces them with white tiles bearing slogans from John Carpenter's 1988 film They Live: OBEY, CONSUME, WATCH TV, SLEEP, SUBMIT, CONFORM, STAY ASLEEP, BUY, WORK, NO INDEPENDENT THOUGHT, DO NOT QUESTION AUTHORITY.
Each blocked ad gets a single phrase, picked at random from the list.
The idea is from a blog post I wrote in 2015 (and never got around to building): They Live adblock mode.
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Install
Download the latest uBOLite_theylive.chromium.zip from the Releases page, extract it, then in Chromium / Chrome / Brave / Edge:
Open chrome://extensions Toggle Developer mode on (top-right) Click Load unpacked and select the extracted folder
Keep the folder around — the extension is loaded from that path.
Make it actually replace ads
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