As much as we enjoy them, websites are not our friends.
Websites cost money to set up and operate.
Every click is monitored and every bit of data about you is sold.
That is how they pay for the site and servers and make a profit.
As marketing intensive as this site is, you can bet .gov has their hooks in here as well, mining our data and archiving our comments, whether the owners realize that or not.
We all need to protect our sanity and protect our data.
Adblockers and more are necessary, if we want to surf the web.

I do believe sites are reaching a point of overwhelming viewers with disruptive ads which will end in decreased revenue. The campfire seems to be at that point.