Right, I’ll often make design choices to remove a whole div I don’t need. Your most recent stories I might be interested in that takes up 20% of my screen? No thanks!
On news websites, beyond the typical heavy JS ads, uBlock is super useful for removing 1P static ads (e.g. New Yorker "subscribe and get a free tote" linked to as a newyorker.com image from next to an article) as well as things like sticky title bars and "top articles" widgets to declutter the reading experience.
I don't use Facebook much any more but a lot of the noise on there can be blocked (the ads which are conveniently labelled as sponsored, and "suggested for you").
They've seemingly gone out of their way to make this difficult by putting each letter of "Sponsored" in its own div, but you can make a filter based on the aria-label instead.
I block scripts on news sites since they serve no purpose.It removes things like popups, autoplaying videos and comments.
And I have so many custom filters set up to block cookie prompts, annoyances and other stuff.