«The 49MB Web Page» is a great summary of all that's wrong with much of the web along explanations of how we ended up there due to commercial ad incentives.

https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit

The 49MB Web Page

A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.

@gedankenstuecke I wonder if that has anything to do with search engines being broken and companies no longer optimizing their websites for Google. Many sure weren't doing it for their users.