Yes, because all the other people on HN use unlock origin.

The what?

There are ads in docs now?? Thank my lucky adblocks

Let’s put it this way: I would consider myself eligible to be irked by ads on Read the Docs pages if I paid whoever maintains the project.

If they bother you enough, absolutely no one’s going to frown if you estimate how much they would be making on ads from traffic volume yearly, email the maintainer and suggest to pay that in return for turning off the ads for a year.

(Some people might frown if you just block the ads, since after all it is robbing a fellow open-source dev of some income.)

I wish. The revenue from the ads goes to readthedocs, AFAIK nothing is paid to the maintainers of the project.

That said, readthedocs is a pretty nice platform to host your docs in a simple way. Plus users are not tracked. So personally I don't mind so much, but I'm going to have a look at the paid plan to remove ads for our users :)

Cheers! FWIW, I think you could easily build Sphinx docs using GHA and publish it on GitHub Pages and not pay a dime. Depending on your distaste for Microsoft’s monopoly, I suppose ;)

We used the free tier for a couple of years before a user mentioned the ads. We had no idea our docs were surrounded by ads as no one on the team had ever tried it without ublock origin... We upgraded to the paid plan after that :)