which we hoped was tolerable for our readers ...
In all seriousness the thing I found to be intolerable was having to watch where my cursor was lest I should run it across one of those words that brought an instant pop up and some even had audio. That forced me to use Firefox with ABP ... twice (I couldn't figure it out the first time).
... but I get that you guys write articles and that brings readers (I'm here) so advertisers pay to reach us (Netflix is here). I would think that plenty of the casual readers still get reached by plenty of ads but the best option for serious post whores really is the often mentioned above options. The ads don't really need to
keep reaching me. I'm here enough to have seen plenty of ads but somehow I feel a little disloyal for blocking them.
I'm going to check out some of your advertisers to appease my conscience and I already have Netflix.