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They Live (1988) inspired 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 . Download the latest uBOLite_theylive.chromium.zip from the Releases page , extract it, then in Chromium / Chrome / Brave / Edge: Keep the folder around — the extension is loaded from that path. By default uBO Lite uses Basic filtering mode, which blocks ads at the network layer. Network-blocked ads never produce a DOM element, so there's nothing to "they-live-ify" — you just get empty space, as with normal uBO Lite. To see the OBEY tiles: The packaged extension lands in uBlock/dist/build/uBOLite.chromium/ — load it as an unpacked extension. uBO Lite's cosmetic filtering normally injects CSS like selector { display: none !important } to hide matched ad elements. This fork patches those injection sites to instead apply a white-box mask with a ::after overlay whose content is read from a data-ubol-they-live attribute, then walks the DOM (with a MutationObserver for late-loaded ads) to tag each matched element with a random phrase from the list. Touched files in the davmlaw/uBlock submodule: GPL-3.0, same as upstream uBlock Origin / uBO Lite.