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Theoretically, an air-gapped system that is worn on the head, rather than installed to the device would be undetectable.
An AR vision headset that detected known-ad-signatures and could blank or replace ads in realtime, with targetted noise-cancelling to 'mute' specific ad audio, could surgically remove ads from any media(billboard, magazine, video, radio, webpage).
Kind of like reverse-Snowcrash augmentation.
The major problem with ads isn't that they are a visual and audible nightmare (although that IS a problem), it's that they can affect performance and are vectors for malware.
Love this out-of-the box thinking. Could even do it with a camera and a monitor on the 2nd air-gapped system if you don't want to go VR route.
Alternatively, a program that is a wrapper for your entire browser/device, that observes video and audio, to automatically carry out the blanking/muting.
Ads load as normally, but are never seen or heard by the user.