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I think the one in the images is slrn, which has always been good for reading lots of stuff with vim keybindings. http://www.slrn.org/

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It looks like slrn.org has been compromised by spammers (perhaps the owner failed to renew the domain name in time?). https://slrn.info/ appears to be the current home of the project. (https://jedsoft.org/ links there via http://slrn.sourceforge.net/.)

Why is there a link to "Fast Online Payday Loans" in the center of that page?

And "National cash advance".

Somebody should tell him that his website appears to have been compromised by very low-end spammerz.

Not seeing that here. Perhaps the compromise is on your end.

Same. The link is HTTP so it looks like GP is getting some sort of malicious ad insertion.

I see it on two different networks. They’re not big ads, just hyperlinks subtly inserted into the text.

Yeah, I tested multiple networks. It's not on my end.

archive.today sees it too:

https://archive.vn/JOBcZ

It's subtle, you probably missed it:

  $ curl -s http://www.slrn.org | egrep Payday\|National
  Davis has returned to develop slrn again&nbsp;<a href="http://fastonlinepayday.com/">Fast Online Payday Loans</a> and after much work has
  subscribe both slrn-admin and slrn-user <a href="National-cash-advance.html"> National cash advance</a>. For questions about slrn that

Wow I did totally miss those. I was looking for banner ads or something. Scanning over the page I didn't even notice those bits of text.

>with vim keybindings.

Not by default, sadly.

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