The LAT ads are so fat and intrusive, and their blocker blocker is so infuriating, that I recently just turned off JavaScript completely for their site.
It means I don't get images or videos, but I can read the occasional article without going through unnecessary gyrations.
It's not that I'm unwilling to pay for good journalism. I subscribe to the New York Times, Washington Post and The Atlantic. But the LA Times has chopped back their newsroom so savagely that they have very little investigative journalism or foreign corespondents anymore.
It's just not worth enduring their abusive ads and nagware to read what little content is worthwhile.
I just use ublock's advanced mode to block scripts. Nicer than having a separate extension to do it (on Safari and like to keep it light) and is more or less a permafix. If (when) it breaks the layout I just click that built-in reader mode thing.
It means I don't get images or videos, but I can read the occasional article without going through unnecessary gyrations.
It's not that I'm unwilling to pay for good journalism. I subscribe to the New York Times, Washington Post and The Atlantic. But the LA Times has chopped back their newsroom so savagely that they have very little investigative journalism or foreign corespondents anymore.
It's just not worth enduring their abusive ads and nagware to read what little content is worthwhile.