It is sad we can't assume any objectivity in any research/studies based on who is sponsoring them these days.

Not saying their study was biased, just that the joke plays to an assumption we all make.

There are also two other statistics mentioned by entirely different sources/studies. Why didn't you call out those as well?

Lol. Will be back up momentarily.

Back up and running.

I never ever see popups. I do 90% of my browsing in emacs, using emacs-w3m in text mode, so don't see images (except when I manually choose to view them) and emacs-w3m does not support javascript. It works very well for the majority of websites out there.

For those sites that are broken without javascript, and which I absolutely must use, I use Firefox with the NoScript and Request Policy extensions (though I'm migrating to Pale Moon because Pentadactyl is going to break on newer versions of Firefox) and Privoxy for ad blocking. For the few sites that don't work with Firefox, I use Opera, again with Privoxy for ad blocking.

As a result, 99% of the time, the only ads I ever see are text-based, and only when embedded directly in the page I'm reading.

Same. Was really annoying, and I closed the tab without reading the article.

Might because I am on mobile (edge windows phone) but I got social links floating on the bottom. No pop up though.

Really appreciate the pointed feedback. Making adjustments ATM to improve the experience.