It’s called striking while the iron is hot. Bravo!!

haha all good. Also another thing that might have impacted my experience is I use Consent-O-Matic which helps eliminate most GDPR pop-ups which is half of what was annoying you; right? Which, FWIW, is why you get those cookie pop-ups most of the times. For right wrong or indifferent it’s an EU law and The Guardian follows it I guess. I mean sure it would be nice if they just didn’t try to collect shit cookies so they didn’t have to then ask you about it, but that’s what we got sooooo [sigh]

I said (or thought I implied) I use both and I use Firefox.

or just use ublock and noscript? I was able to view the article without any of that. Not even sure how you use the internet without them but you do you.