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 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.
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.
I actually just stayed using kiwi browser since it's a chromium fork that supports plugins on Android. Ublock and some other choice extensions are going pretty well for me so far
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.