I think there's an even simpler and more realistic solution: someone needs to make a Chrome extension that is like uBlock Origin, but unblockable.
It should be:
* an adblocker that also blocks tracking scripts
* ...with no "acceptable ads" whitelist like Adblock Plus
* ...open source
* ...with workarounds for ad-blocker-blockers
Here's how I think we can do that: we maintain a list of domains that are using ad-blocker-blockers, and for those, rather than blocking ads at the HTTP request level, the user agent loads them and simply doesn't display them.
In principle, you can do this in a way that is completely undetectable by the site owner. There doesn't need to be an "arms race" between ad-blocker-blockers and the workaround developers--you simply win outright by having DOM look exactly the same as if it had ads, but rendering, say, a box with a tasteful light grey smiley face instead of the ad. (You can even make it so that canvas.getPixelData returns the ad that the page thinks it drew, but the actual screen output doesn't show it.)
At that point, sites are actually incentivized to stop using ad-blocker-blockers, because the only difference they'll make is that site will load slower, since the user agent has to load and pretend to display all those extra resources. The user never actually sees the ads either way.
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For extra credit, this hypothetical browser extension can also simulate a click on YouTube's "Skip This Ad" button as soon as it appears, etc.
You could even keep per-domain blacklists of bloat resources and simply not load those. That would make the internet feel a lot faster. A user with this extension would visit The Verge and instead of getting a janky 5 megabyte page load, they'd get a near-instant load with just the text and images.
Finally, this extension could keep a mapping of desktop sites to auto-redirect to the lightweight mobile equivalent, with a body{max-width:800px} thrown in to keep things readable.
I know I'd install this hypothetical extension immediately and never go back.
