It's getting almost impossible to read an online news article these days.
Click on a link and first you'll be bombarded with cookie consents and requests to register or download the app. Then when you X out of those, ads appear top and bottom of the page, strategically placed to make accidentally clicking on them almost unavoidable.
Then when you've finally managed to clear all of that, the article itself is loaded with ads throughout and then all the clickbait stories about 'wait till you see what X celeb looks like now' and 'one thing every woman needs to know'.
Does anyone EVER intentionally click on any of these ads??
Does anyone EVER go on to purchase anything from the webpages they lead to??
How can the newspapers be making money from this stuff??
Add this to the fact that most articles seem to be written by an AI, using primary school level vocabulary, with pointlessly long introductions before getting to the (usually pretty scant) key information and repeating points over and over again.
The energy required to maintain the servers for the internet is crazy anyway, when it's mostly populated by this trash surely it's reached an indefensible level of Black Mirror proportions?