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I can't convince my wife to even use an add blocker, because it makes some (terrible) websites unusable (and you need an entire one additional click to disable it, it's too much effort), blocking JS would make the entire internet unusable for normies.
Can you convince her to use a subtraction blocker?
A subraction facilitator. It enables the surgical excision of unwanted, harmful and stupefying noise.
Pi-hole might be an option.
Another option is to point your DNS to one of the public ad blocking DNS servers.
Pi-hole is a great project for network-wide dns-based blocking, yes. I was going to link to the official site, but it seems to be broken now, so I linked to the official github repo.
I'm in the process of setting up pi-hole at the moment.
My wife loves our pihole setup so much I was forced to setup VPN access to the home network so she could block ads while traveling. Now our oldest daughter wants me to setup pihole for her house.
One thing that's really nice about pi-hole is that it gives a window into your network, allowing you to easily see dns requests as they happen, while also organizing them into useful charts and graphs.
AFAIK some sites are so terrible that they won't work even if you use DNS-based adblocking instead of browser extension-based adblocking ...
Definitely worth trying, though.