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> don't bother opening it, tried on mobile, whole screen has some grey overlay…

It's the "Accept Cookies" overlay, obviously poorly tested on mobile.

Safari's Reader mode fixed it for me.

Firefox Android reader mode works well, except the images only load if you scroll through the article before enabling the reader mode.

You can also get ublock for Firefox Android, which also seems to solve the issue

Agreed. And Mobile Safari's reader mode doesn't help.

Mobile Safari reader mode was effective for me. Maybe because I have Purify for ad blocking (which didn’t remove transparent gray overlay, unfortunately).