On desktop the site was covered in ads and auto playing video. With blocking enabled, the experience was even worse, with stylesheets and images missing. I don'

On desktop the site was covered in ads and auto playing video. With blocking enabled, the experience was even worse, with stylesheets and images missing. I don't know why this article in particular was so bad, but I've personally never experienced this from a site I visited here before, fortunately the workaround above allowed me to read the article as they intended.