If it actually worked that would be fine by me. Chances are, though, that it would soon end up incompatible with any browsing technology I can afford or would get plundered by people salami-slicing with accesses to faked content (like those Taboola links only more so).

Sometimes I wouldn't have problem with having a site display ads if that was how they supported themselves. Mudcat itself is an example. The problem is that if I don't block the ads, Mudcat slows to a crawl, far below the limit of usability. The code is long overdue a thorough de-bloat, with advertising-centred scripts allocated only a tolerable amount of CPU and bandwidth. (A long time ago I tried taking the Mudcat start page and rewriting it as static scriptless HTML to generate something that would look the same and link to the same things; it loaded in a tiny fraction of the time, and the difference would be much greater now).