The days of intrusive advertising are definitely back. I'm old enough to remember when the flashing ads were banned and webpages got a whole lot more useable. Now it's unstoppable videos, fake 'x' to close an ad, ads that make some webpages pretty much unusable, not to mention incredibly loud ads on youtube.
I use ghostery which sorts all of this out. The occasional news site doesn't like it, but
www.lightpollutionmap.info works just fine with it.