I don't branch out onto websites that aren't already known quantity destinations for me (especially on mobile, but increasingly on desktop/laptop as well) becau

I don't branch out onto websites that aren't already known quantity destinations for me (especially on mobile, but increasingly on desktop/laptop as well) because the race to the bottom of the web advertising model has basically ruined everything. It isn't even the ads themselves (easily blocked, of course) that cause the problem, but the horrible user-hostile layouts that are clearly designed to maximize page views (and thus ad impressions). What should be a one page essay is like 20 fucking goddamn pages of bullshit (rage getting to me just thinking about it). Ain't nobody got time for that. This is, I think, basically the web version of how desktop shareware authors destroyed their own market with the downward spiral of including increasingly annoying "installer add-ons". PS. I will note here prior to claims of blocking being the problem that I never ran an ad blocker personally (other than for testing) until 2014, and only started then because "the web" as a whole basically forced my hand by making the idea of using the web without one completely unbearable.