I'm finding myself increasingly irritated by how bad the internet is becoming.

Remember when we thought popups were annoying so we blocked them, and what followed has been the systematic dismantling of any and all pleasure that could be derived from the internet. Now we have constant popups, overlays, cookie warnings, ads that you can't differentiate from content, services that try (and succeed) to build a map of your entire life online that they can keep and know for themselves, then attempt to make you feel guilty for blocking it!

And it seems to be getting worse. I'm finding myself needing to enable stripped-back reader views on every site I visit, just so I can actually parse the content I arrived for. I know some websites are trying to make money, but doing it by annoying everyone in the process doesn't feel like a super sustainable business model.