Another: "Related" interstitial elements scattered within an article.
Fucking NPR now has ~2--6 "Related" links between paragraphs of a story. I frequently read the site via w3m, and yes, will load the rendered buffer in vim (<esc>-e) to delete those when reading an article.
I don't know if it's oversensitisation or progressive cognitive decline, but even quite modest distracting cruft is increasingly intolerable.
If you truly have related stories, pile them at the end of the article, and put in some goddamned microcontent (title, description, publication date) for the article.
As I've mentioned previously, my "cnn-sanify" script which strips story links and headlines from CNN's own "lite" page, and restructures those into section-organised, time-sorted presentation. Mostly for reading from the shell, though I can dump the rendered file locally and read it in a GUI browser as well.
See: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42535359>
My biggest disappointment: CNN's article selection is pretty poor. I'd recently checked against 719 stories collected since ~18 December 2024, and of the 111 "US" stories, 54% are relatively mundane crime. Substantive stories are the exception.
(The sense that few of the headlines really were significant was a large part of why I'd written the organisation script in the first place.)