I agree it's a shit website, but I loaded it on Chrome with uBlock Origin and I don't have scrolljacking (scrolling seems fine), history hacking (my back button works as expected), and no background ads at all.
Running this with stock standard Firefox (and its standard tracking protections) and the site works well for me too.
The state of the web today reminds me a lot of the early '00s when popups were everywhere, and the most popular browser didn't block them by default. Browsing news sites with vanilla Chrome today is awful.