how coincidental

I also resorted to using archive.is when I first visited the page so that I wouldn't need to agree to their data collection for personalization.

So interesting that with this link, I saw the whole article is a couple paragraphs. With the original link, I gave up after the second ad that almost covered my whole screen on mobile. Too many ads are a terrible user experience that doesn’t let us read anything.

I use Brave on iOS, it mostly works and blocks ads and cookie pop ups. (Sometimes it breaks some websites but it's trivial to disable the shields.)

Ublock Origin, disable javascript for that site, remember the decision. Problem solved.

Something new I found - go to any link (news article) on commondreams.org in Firefox. Now use the Reader View button in your address bar - they've figured out how to hack Reader View to not show the content and only a beg screen for money.

Reader view on iOS is often a lifesaver. Some sites load the content then block it with JavaScript, but if you move to reader quickly enough, it allows a nice experience.

I just wish it automagically expanded Wikipedia headers.

Doesn't seem to be happening on my machine, at least not as of now (3 days after you commented this).