I almost can't read anything more than a page long without Print Friendly[1] or Readability[2]. Not because of ads, but getting rid of all the distraction makes it so much more pleasurable.
If browsers showed stats, I wouldn't be surprised printfriendly being on the first spot.
printfriendly will lower your blood pressure.
When I feel anarchist enough I use dillo.
I don't understand what you mean. I've only ever gotten one pop-up, if even that. I've never found TechBeacon to be intrusive.
Join the NoScript master race. Javascript is the cancer killing the Web. With that and uBlock I haven't seen a popup in years.
I used to have the same feeling, until I realized that the popups were actually prompting me to the next step. I now depend on the popups (I "live in the debugger" as it were), and I get concerned when they don't happen at all.