Rant on:
I'm semi old school, I want to go to a news site and READ the news, not watch a video of the news.
Some websites have WAY too much going on, side bars filling up with ads and/or videos playing while you are TRYING to read the news.
Ads that pop up at the top, so you scroll down, then the ad disappears and you then have to scroll back up to start reading.
Start reading, then the page pops up or down due to some other thing finally loading on the page, causing you to have no idea where you were in the article.
Hardware is behind the ISP speed which is behind the software OR vice versa, all the time it seems.
Go to a website and it just spins and spins trying to load everything that is on the page.
Reading articles then realizing the headline promised WAY more than the content provides and/or realizing you knew more than whomever wrote the article.
There's more, but I'm done.
Rant off.
I get the Washington Post on my kindle app on iPad.
No ads, no pop ups, no vids.
A lot of junk news websites try to drive up revenue by loading multiple ads and popups onto their pages. It slows your browser.
However, even some of the more reputable news sites feel the need to add auto play video onto their pages, especially TV news network websites since video is their primary content.
This is the price we pay for not buying newspapers, they have to generate revenue somehow. Most major newspaper websites aren't as messy.
This is the world we live in now. There is a price to pay for technological innovation. Sometimes this results in burdensome externalities / consequences.
I feel your pain!
Adblock Plus cures nearly everything and I don't use sites that make me watch vids. If there is no transcription available, I find another source.
[Edited on 12/10/2016 by WaitinForRain]
I totally understand what you are saying. I live in Chicago and my modes of transportation are a bus or train. When I get on one, everyone is addicted to whatever hand held device they have. They are even on them when I am in elevators.
If I could offer a suggestion, don't look at the internets all the time. When I see someone on a bus reading a book for instance, I have a strange sense of pride and/or happiness.
I get the Chicago Tribune every day. You can get just as much info without all of the ads and crap.
The internets are convenient. I perform a TON of transactions on it but I try not be a slave to it (saves a lot of money on stamps).
Remember, we didn't have it not too long ago and the world survived. 
Everything in Moderation. Including Moderation.
I know what you mean.
I started noticing some websites I frequented changing a couple years ago. A story headline you click on would just be a collection of photos you scroll through related to the topic. Or the story headline you click on is the story in a video format rather than typed words. And lots of ads and things moving around, and as of late audio out of nowhere...sometimes you don't even see the video. Even happened here on the ABB site.
Not sure if I am right or not, but I came to the conclusion that companies and web-designers were catering their sites to mobile applications. Some of this was confirmed when I would go to a page and it would have all this stuff on it that wasn't what I was looking for and then there was a link that said "go to full site" and there it was, everything I wanted in the format I wanted.
But yeah. Some of those webpages can really slow stuff down.
If you are into South Park they did a fairly recent episode that had a side theme of ads in news, it's called "sponsored content".
