Well, there's a healthy middle ground between an ad-infested 50-page listicle and an Excel spreadsheet that requires you to scroll back and forth to get all the data.

Presenting it as a single-page text structured as:

Article name

Article source, author

Article subject matter

would be much easier on the eyes. And they could put an ad way down below if they wanted to or on the side. (Or no ad at all.)