This browser add-in doesn't just hide ads, it tells you to OBEY

A fork of uBlock Origin Lite doesn't just remove the ads from web pages; it replaces them with tiles containing slogans from John Carpenter's 1988 film They Live.

Published by Australian Dave Lawrence, the Chromium add-in (so it'll work in browsers such as Chrome and Edge) takes the uBlock Origin Lite content blocker (also known as uBO Lite) and tweaks it so that rather than simply hiding the ads, the ads are replaced with white boxes containing slogans from the movies.

Lawrence listed them: "OBEY, CONSUME, WATCH TV, SLEEP, SUBMIT, CONFORM, STAY ASLEEP, BUY, WORK, NO INDEPENDENT THOUGHT, DO NOT QUESTION AUTHORITY."

But sadly, nothing along the lines of "THIS AD IS HERE SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO PAY TO KEEP THIS SITE RUNNING."

"Each blocked ad gets a single phrase, picked at random from the list," Lawrence explained in the project's repository.

The uBlock ...