This is outdated article draft which wasn't published a few years ago when it was fresh, and now it is outdated. It accidentally escaped and now is automatically posted on HN.
Agree, and another meta-comment would be to move to "MB" or "MiB", instead of using "Mb" to mean "mega byte", which is very confusing.
Use Firefox’s reading mode... solves issues like that easily. :-)
I just right click -> Adblock -> remove element
uBlock origin has a "zap" feature for this that I just discovered the other day.
Mobile user here… It's even worse (I imagine), and unfixable from mobile Safari.