I know what you mean. “American Thinker”, for example, is virtually unreadable because of all the pop-ups. They may have some good articles, but I will no longer follow a link to that site. Plus, you can usually find a lot of their content on more readable sites.
These days I pretty much avoid all the clickbait sites. “The Federalist” is a much better site, user wise, and has some outstanding writers.
I ignore American Thinker threads because there are so many posted by the same FReepers continuously all day long. It’s as if their whole site is reposted on FR. Not liking that practice.