Works 80% of the time, though. Many sites do client-side JS-based rendering.
(a) to be part of the spyweb - so they can still track you via web requests
(b) not part of an independent net - so there isn't a higher proportion of signal, because the content generators are the same and targeted at generating adrevenue, not independent hobbiests sharing information about their interests.
Consequently I don't think it will work.
Gopher would work in the sense that you would notice the transition from a gopher site to a web site.
also, in your opinion, how effective is Ghostery against this vermin?
I use EasyPrivacy + uBlock with a huge amount of wildcard rules - rules that did not work well with ABP (before uBlock came along; ABP would choke and cause 10 second load times).
People are basically being employed to arms-race any defenses, so you get that kind of development speed.
I've seen providers attempt to access your GPU info, fingerprint you via 3D rendering, all sorts of disgusting stuff. They attempt to enumerate megabytes worth of plugin names and mimetypes, load Flash, Shockwave, Java, Silverlight, Windows Media, anything to exfil as much data as they can about you.
They buy thousands or tens of thousands of random domains, subdomains, and attempt all of them if they fail. They act like malware.
They serve fake sourcemaps that try to track the fact that you attempted to investigate them, and use this against you.
I've seen ads _port scan you and your LAN via websocket_ after using RTCPeerConnection and enumerating your local IPs.
I can think of many companies that do this immediately on first page load, silently, before you get a chance to read their ToS or opt out. There is no opt out. They serve this code with CNAMEs and via reverse proxies for first-party cookie access and adblock bypassing.