The irony of praising print and rhetoricizing reading on a website that is nearly unreadable due to intrusive visual ads is kind of a sign that collapse is an era behind us.

Oh gosh you are right. I turned off the adblocker to check it out. I often kind of forget the adblock-less world is out there.

I went and checked the page in another browser with my adblocker off. Wow. Just wow. I started using ad blockers on everything a few years ago because they became a little too annoying. I somehow missed when the web became nigh unusable from them.

The irony is that even the ads on the site are so terrible they take a good 30 seconds to fully load.

When I opened the page initially it just looked the same like it did with an adblocker on, but eventually: https://imgur.com/a/L7F7uNm

I thought you were exaggerating until I clicked the link.

I disabled brave shields for a moment and wow. Especially the youtube-like iframe that slid in from the right. Crazy.