1) Many websites are not news sites. In fact, I'd guess the vast majority. So this point doesn't feel relevant.
2) Sometimes things might be useful to people other than you. The world doesn't exist to cater to your needs, and referring to things that aren't exactly what you want as cancerous is childish.
Because you should be comparing the aggregate of all readers versus the content publisher.
Also, what’s with calling people monkeys? I’m sure many coders here produce stuff that is as questionable in value as what ad executives do.
People need to put food on the table and it’s abhorrent to think of yourself better than an another person because you build data pipelines in Scala that the universe doesn’t give a shit about.
2) Sometimes things might be useful to people other than you. The world doesn't exist to cater to your needs, and referring to things that aren't exactly what you want as cancerous is childish.