I'm surprised the article didn't mention the quick hack that improves the UX on pretty much every news site: Disable javascript. The chrome extension I use is

I'm surprised the article didn't mention the quick hack that improves the UX on pretty much every news site: Disable javascript. The chrome extension I use is one button that blocks JS on the current domain. The page reloads in a flash and is replaced by an easy-to-read block of text. Other websites are unaffected. I am by no means a JS hater; I even tend to like SPAs on the web. It's just that these news sites seem to want us to run with JS disabled. It's really a better browsing experience.