[kwhitefoot]

If they were just straight facts ads would be just bullet lists of features, the price, together with delivery costs and methods.

No colour, no pictures that are not strictly informative, no reviews, stars, celebrity endorsements, etc.

Perhaps someone in the AI/ML field should create a tool that distils ads down to such a bare-bones representation. I won't say down to their essence because the essence of most ads is the high octane sell not the informative part. Then instead of blocking ads uBlock and friends could fetch the distilled version.