Be sure to read my follow up article, "How ads are funding the services you request the other half of your mobile data from, so you can use them without paying except with some mobile data and some pixels on your screen."
Users should of course block all malware.
The other obvious thing to consider is that if you're going to write an article to convince people of your opinion, I'm not going to pay you for that. You're the one trying to influence me!
What about an embedded video window that covers the bottom 2/3rds of the content and follows with scroll?
Oh and I hope you've not left out the absolutely mandatory "Read More" button that spawns a user interaction and auto-plays everything on the page.
Those are all of my favourite things on the web and I really enjoy seeing them all over the place!!
Newsletter signup, location permission
Video covering every thing
These are my favorite adtech offsprings
People correctly value this at $0. This post is noise, and things like it just make web crawling/search harder to scale.
Recourse to "people have revealed their preferences" is the last refuge of the defenders of the status quo of deeply corrupted "markets".