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I kept reading but definitely found it annoying.

It also took a few seconds to load and the page scrolled back to the top, causing me to lose my place. Extra annoying.

something in one of chrome, ghostery, disconnect or adblock removes that, fwiw (and maybe it's just because it's timely, but it's actually one of the better posts i've read in this kind of thing).

I have adblock and ghostery. It still appeared for me.

Perhaps I should use noscript as well :)

I rarely see this stuff in w3m ;)

Agreed!