It's also unfriendly, and not very cooperative, to dismiss the stated wishes and motivations of content creators to save clicking on a link.

Similarly unfriendly is assuming bad faith, i. e. "most media sources don't [seek to] inform you - their goal is to just exploit you".

Yeah, yeah, I know. You'd gladly spoil the writers you read by deigning to visit, if only they didn't use javascript/have big images that load slowly/used your favorite font/...