I always use ublock origin but I disabled it to see what it looked like.

We. You weren't kidding. Every few lines was an ad. It was absolutely impossible to read.

I want to give the author the benefit of the doubt here. If he had actually seen what it looks like, I cannot believe he would keep it that way. He surely has ads turned off for himself to avoid being flagged as clicking on his own ads.

Running uBlockOrigin in default deny all javascript and I got to read the article with zero ads.

AdGuard on iOS eliminates that trash for me. (I wish I could do uBlock Origin!)

Yes, whatever it was advertising soon became something I hated. Do even advertisers think this is a good idea?