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This piece is so littered with ads (one per paragraph) that it is impossible to read without an ad blocker.

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That's, sadly, the Web these days.

Even with adblockers, I see the "advertisement" lines remaining in articles. Often every paragraph or two.

With Javascript disabled, I don't see them at all

Depending on the site, I do.

This LA Times article has two "advertisement" lines. The ads themselves don't appear. JS is disabled.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-31/homes-bu...

More and more often with JavaScript disabled I don't see anything at all!

With /etc/hosts blocking, I still see them, and I like it. It's like a TV that's gone to ads and then glitches out and the show comes straight back on.

That's what Hulu is like with ublock. It goes to show "ads" but just shows a blank screen, and the countdown goes from 30 seconds to 0 instantly.

Why would you even try to read something on the internet without an ad blocker?

Since some people agree to the fundamental "deal" that one receives "free" content for seeing add as well and configure an ad blocker more granular (and maybe the best strategy were that sites with abusive amounts/forms of ads simply lose visitors and attention)

When did I sign that contract?

That response tells that you didn't "sign" that. I only have reasons why some don't or limit use of ad blockers. If you have other values I won't try to convince you.

Reader mode and adblocker and JS turned off. It was absolutely fine to read, just text and images :)

That's why there's so much blank space between the paragraphs! /s

One of those blank spaces is the white square screenshot mentioned in the article. I assumed it was just an ad taking a while to render the first time I scrolled past it.

http://www.stilldrinking.org/blog_images/suzy/take-better-sc...

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