[American in Israel]

An interesting article, but I only got half way through when the third time website redirected or obscured my reading I can’t stand websites that do that

[Paal Gulli]

An interesting article, but I only got half way through when the third time website redirected or obscured my reading I can’t stand websites that do that

I get zero redirects or pop-ups on that site. Which might be because I take a different route over the Internet to get there, or it might be because of the guards I have in place.

I'm running a customizable pop-up and redirect blocking add-on called uBlock Origin ...
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin)
... which is a little "techie" but not terribly so. Ublock Origin is available for Firefox and Chrome browsers with "unofficial" versions available for Safari and MS Edge (I'm using it on FF). Some pop-ups will still spawn a new window but the new window will be empty, so it can't deliver any malware.

Since some web sites won't give you full access to their content if they detect that your browser has an active pop-up blocker, I also run a script called Anti-Adblock Killer ...
https://reek.github.io/anti-adblock-killer/

However, the browser needs an add-on called a "script manager" installed to run the script on. The two most popular ones are GreaseMonkey and TamperMonkey.
http://www.greasespot.net/
https://tampermonkey.net/
The Anti-Adblock Killer script runs equally well on either script manager add-on.

To clarify, the uBlock Origin is all you need to dramatically reduce the number of pop-ups (and it imposes less of a burden on the system than any other ad blocker I've used). But also installing a script manager and the Anti-Adblock Killer script will reduce the number of websites that will limit your access to their content because you're running an ad blocker.