Seconded. I don't even bother reading articles that are chopped up that way anymore. What's the point of that? More clicks, more page loads, and thus more hits or something? There's no reason for it; this is the web and not a damned print magazine. As for the inline elements, yeah the situation is bad. How I deal with it is: turn on noscript, Adblock Plus, ghostery (can block inline frames), flashblock, and turn auto-load images off. Then if I need to get access to any of the above I can, otherwise I don't waste time downloading or rendering it. This is the prime reason that, even though Chrome is based on the faster Webkit engine, I've stuck with Firefox myself. Without these addons, the web has become so cluttered that it's almost physically painful.
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