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Print ads don't have to be physically peeled off the page in order to read the content underneath. They don't cause the pages to fall out of the magazine when you flip them out of the way. They don't cramp the content into a postage-stamp sized corner of the page. They don't inline ads every third paragraph. The ads themselves don't roll around on the page or blink.

There's ads in the print magazine, but they're in a format that doesn't run into absolute conflict with the content.

The print ads rarely jump in front of the text, permanently obscuring it. It's baffling, but this is a real phenomenon on the mobile web.

It's not just a matter of getting used to ads. Print ads don't jump across the page and hide the text of an article after I start reading it.