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Yes, I tried reading the first sentence twice. Both times I won $1000 and then have up.

Edit: happened on iPhone

Same here, on an iPhone

I didn't see that, even on MS Edge with no adblockers. Malicious extensions or malware maybe?

That's what I was afraid of too. I tried a few other pages, even others on discovery magazine site, and only see the problem with this article. I'm on a Pixel in a Chrome incognito tab when it happens.

Well that's pretty weird. I tried it on a Chrome Incognito tab on my Nexus 5X, and that worked fine too.

I got this too, and I've gotten it on other websites that are very popular. I can't imagine that any of these sites would intentionally host an advertisement that would make it unreadable.

The solution is to delete Safari's history and cookies. Alternatively you can use private browsing.

No, it works fine here.

The site is non-https which allows for an internet provider to manipulate the page too. :(

It happens to me, even in read mode. Hitting back just stalls.

Fake Facebook styling is sketchy.

Same here, with chrome / Android

No problems chrome / Android here