I find that most of the time, the ad-riddled article wasn't worth reading. The number and intrusiveness of advertising grows in proportion to the desperation of the author to make the most of what little time you're going to spend.
The Internet is exhausting because the Internet is exhausted. Good content is hard, and there's less of it than you'd hope. The web gains perhaps a few minutes worth of meaningful content per day, if that. And unless you particularly enjoy being the one trying to ferret it out of the torrent, it's better to let some other aggregator do it for you. Read that, then turn it off and go do something else.
> The number and intrusiveness of advertising grows in proportion to the desperation of the author to make the most of what little time you're going to spend.
I have a rule of thumb that hasn't failed me for a decade now: the trustworthiness of a source is inversely proportional to the amount of advertising it puts up.
The Internet is exhausting because the Internet is exhausted. Good content is hard, and there's less of it than you'd hope. The web gains perhaps a few minutes worth of meaningful content per day, if that. And unless you particularly enjoy being the one trying to ferret it out of the torrent, it's better to let some other aggregator do it for you. Read that, then turn it off and go do something else.