[kristerv]

I think they are spotting a trend. Not one I'm a fan of, like the newsfeed to the left of my homescreen on my Pixel phone.

[isaacremuant]

You can disable that. It's not intuitive but once you do, you're so much better off without that kind of constant spam of very low quality.

Then you can just use an RSS reader like Flym which works just fine and access the websites that you want when you want it with a mobile browser.