Which is when this happened to me a few years ago I finally installed https://noscript.net/ I had always been subscribed to the idea that the internet needs to be paid for, and ad blockers were somewhat unethical because of this. However if ads block the text you are there for in the first place ads need to be blocked...
Good stuff!
Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall is a great read.
Geopolitical Futures a good website that has good analysis on present global situations/conflicts.