I thought this was going to be about reading articles online, with ads appearing in between paragraphs, blinking on the left and the right, making it impossible to concentrate on the actual article.

How does anyone actually read these articles?

And do the ads even work? If I can't disappear the ads, I close the page.

But somebody must be reading the articles(?)

And somebody must be clicking through the ads and buying stuff(?)

I can't believe how bad the experience is.

Tell me it's just me, and everyone else thinks its normal(?)