theluckycountry wrote:JuanP wrote:I reloaded the page and stopped the loading the moment the text appeared; that stopped the popup from loading and I could read the article without problems. I have been doing this on a number of different websites for years. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. The problem is getting worse. There are a lot of sites I no longer visit because their ads became too annoying.
That's a good trick, another is to use firefox 'reader view' it's an addon that eliminates all web formatting, and ads, and gives you a classic book view. Another is the 'toggle javascript' and another way is to use an archive site like this one.
https://archive.ph/
Here is the page I posted from that archive site
https://archive.ph/ACCl0
Just remember to use the second box, the search box, not the archive one at the top of the page.
Thanks for the tips/suggestions. It's getting to the point that it's nice to be able to fight back without investing scores of hours learning about html et al.
I use Firefox on Linux but hadn't even thought about of it on Windows for years, as I've been happy with Chrome.