I have heard that readitlater works to assemble the full article whether you have paid for it or not.
I just went to the Introduction page in Safari 5.1 and reader is already to page 15. I'm not going to let it finish, but it doesn't look like it's blocked to me. I haven't paid yet - so something might be up in terms of server overload if reader isn't working for you.
The author of Instapaper did mention this specifically in his last podcast that it was quite possible technically for instapaper to scrape the whole article. The gist I recall is he didn't want to cross the line of bypassing ARS' intent since ARS has clearly decided to offer single page view as a benefit to their subscribers.
He urged people to spend the $5 for a month's access if they wanted the whole article to load in instapaper for later reading.
My take is that many of the services actually made sure their tools would not parse the whole article out of respect for a journal as well as an author that penned 27,000 words.
I left Charles (web proxy debugger) running and waited for the re-direct again. I found the site that is originating the request to sponsor.adverstitial.com, it is ad.cpmaxads.com.
A request to that site goes out, then it brings back a lot of shady looking javascript/HTML mix with this in the middle:
{var v=Math.floor((Math.random()*100000));setTimeout(function(){try{window.top.location.href="http://sponsor.adverstitial.com/view/advertisement?loc="+v+"&adv="+p+"&camp="+o+"&w="+t+"&h="+B+"&rnd=4878995824626992114"}catch(d){}},2000)}}
The request to ad.cpmaxads.com from the web page was:
GET /audience/campaign?adid=2832800&cpid=657304&w=728&h=90&rn=1397433511&ct=http://clk.specificclick.net/click/v=5%3Bm=3%3Bl=12679%3Bc=657304%3Bb=2832800%3Bts=20140413195831%3Bui=9BHmMkGDmpd5VsqEQpYbPNeNVqvOhgeY_JYZTk4np7i31BriQpt2BAVz7vpcD5rKAI1kfLriLvqflWaNGuBRQA%3Bdct=
And the referring page was from Slashdot.org.
I'm pretty sure now this is specifically an advertisement that manages to force the whole page to load a new URL, as you can kind of make out from the Javascript - so at least it's not malware. I'm going to try setting a /etc/hosts entry as follows to block the origin of the offending Javascript:
0.0.0.0 sponsor.adverstitial.com
0.0.0.0 ad.cpmaxads.com
As it comes from advertising, this probably occurs for any other sites using that advertiser. If people are not comfortable editing /etc/hosts, you could also try installing an ad-blocker, and just blacklisting ad.cpmaxads.com if you didn't want the whole ad-block experience (I don't like how it slows things down and I do want to support sites I like with advertising revenue - as long as ads do not infuriate me be repaving the whole page...)
For those interested in the whole HTML/javascript block that comes back from ad.cpmaxads.com, it is:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
<meta http-equiv="expires" content="0"><meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache"><meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="no-cache">
</head>
<body>
<div id="adarea" style="position:absolute; top:0px; left:0px; width:300px; height:250px;">
<!-- default -->
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</div>
<img src="http://s.viewalytics.com/t/e?p=52&t=7&ev=1&asrc=0&site=0&rnd=0" width=1 height=1 border=0 style="position:absolute; top:-4px;">
<script type="text/javascript">
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Best Answer
Other malware removers..
MacScan 3 - [Subscription $50 pa] with free trial. idk whether the free trial will let you actually remove anything it finds. Prime task is to remove bad cookies. I've been using it since v1 & have never 'caught' anything it couldn't kill, though that in itself doesn't prove it will kill everything, only the ones I've seen.
For an actual 'antivirus' - rather than me post a list, it would be better to refer you to AV-TEST, which is the closest thing to an actual authority on the subject, or specifically their most recent Mac report . As of their last report, July 2016, they list 4 products with a 100% hit-rate, yet only two which can do that without leaning on your machine & slowing it down, BitDefender & ESET. Neither of those are are free.
They update the report twice a year, so the main link should remain usable in future, as the specific July 2016 report falls out of date.