If it is more ad than news I'd say this an ad site that happens to have some news.

Several times now, I've sent people I knew links to articles that looked perfectly fine to me, but turned out to be unusable ad-ridden garbage to them.

Since then, I try to remember to disable uBlock Origin to check what they'll actually see before I share any links.

It looks pretty good for a picture of a screen.

Gross, someone injected news into this ad site.

I bet on mobile it is even worse!

Using a web browser on your phone is almost completely useless these days what with how messed up the formatting is and how many endless ads there are. The most irritating thing is how a lot of news sites don't even both including images of their news stories. Probably to save the bandwidth. I've noticed stories which referred to photos or drawings and none were visible on mobile. Of all media formats, one would think a web browser on a high resolution screen would be a great one to depict images. Nope. At least not on a lot of sites. They probably prefer to use that space for more ads, I think.

It was literally always like this. Newspapers had a large fraction of material content dedicated to full and half page ads and regularly included entire sections of an ad as ‘sponsored content’. Half the remainder is PR placement and the other half is establishment propaganda and weather and sports. It was always this way.

Sooo your average news site now.

And they wonder why people don't visit News sites

only ever really see ads when I'm at work. all the things are blocked at home & on phone.

That's how all the tech sites have gotten, by the way. Engadget, The Verge, Macrumors.. all devoting huge space to Amazon Prime ads masquerading as journalism. Amazing that Amazon pulled this off through their affiliate program.

Only "mildly" infuriating??

The Capitalist idea of Utopia.

I hope there are alternatives for news, because this looks horrible

Poor people.

Pure clickbait! I'm not even going to bother heading to it.

What about when you scroll down?

To be fair to the journal, most people use the app which is far more palatable. This is their Home Screen right now for example https://ibb.co/fS4gmJc

So are ars technica and gizmodo, which are also just giant Apple advertisement sites