Turning off JavaScript sometimes helps, but often just breaks the site. However, I also have a button to turn off CSS, which just flips a setting (dead simple addon, no security risk, can't break anything, and doesn't need a page refresh). I use it about once a week for articles with too low contrast, annoying fonts (this is getting better over the past year or so), or crappy sites like this.
To my surprise, without JS the layout stayed the same, only the annoying elements on top and bottom when scrolling are no longer there. That's actually perfect in this case.
The article after turning off CSS: https://snag.gy/RmXpxl.jpg
To my surprise, without JS the layout stayed the same, only the annoying elements on top and bottom when scrolling are no longer there. That's actually perfect in this case.
It's really weird to notice all the JavaScript still functioning despite just having transformed the site from Google to motherfuckingwebsite-style. The add-on I use: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/css-toggler/