[cousin_it]

1) Thirteen banner ads, most of them animated

2) Tracking from Google and Facebook

3) Cookie warning with no way to opt out

4) You can only opt out if you live in California:

> Opting out of the sharing of your personal information by Protocol with marketers: Please send an email to [e-mail] with the following information: -Name -Email -Confirmation of California residency

[tclover]

I often forget how does the internet look like without the adblocker

[hobofan]

Not using a dedicated ad blocker (just Firefox) and the article looks very clean to me.

[nunodonato]

same. I only see a very clean article :)

[waitwhatwhoa]

There are a few news organizations somehow battling it out to survive without advertising and I applaud them, but most comments like these simply remind me of this sentiment: https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/

[giancarlostoro]

The issue is that this is a continuing issue that will possibly only get worse until websites find a better means of funding themselves and their staff. I suspect we'll only see these sort of comments increase over time.

[metastart]

No ads coming up in my Epic Privacy Browser with adblock & encrypted proxy on :-). Firefox has been copying a lot of Epic's features, but still is far behind their privacy defaults.