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I think there are many other things worse. e.g. Medium, sites with pop-over menus, cookie popups, etc.

Headers that slide in and hide the content whenever you scroll to read the content in the first place.

I was mystified by some of the strange things I've seen on content sites in the last few months but then I realized they were doing click fraud.

That is, strange things happen when you scroll, content moves around so that when you click on a link you accidentally click on an ad "ka-ching!"

I started complaining to advertisers and anandtech stopped doing this.

Killing JS normally defeats most of those annoyances.

It's a key reason why I disable JS by default, and enable it as an exception.

... and will re-disable it if any such behaviours manifest.