It's almost criminal that the article does not mention network-wide DNS blocklists as an obvious solution to this problem. I stop nearly 100% of ads in their tracks using the Hagezi ultimate list, and run uBlock on desktop for cosmetic filtering and YouTube.

I should really run some to tests to figure out how much lighter the load on my link is thanks to the filter.

I also manually added some additional domains (mostly fonts by Google and Adobe) to further reduce load and improve privacy.