HN doesn't seem to have a problem, thus showing sites in general don't need to have a problem

HN is unique in that it doesn't have or care to have ads. Same for GitHub and websites owned by big companies that don't depend on ads as a primary revenue source.

I'm slowly starting to stop using these sites because it turns out that half of the internet is clickbait misinformation trash run by people who do not care about my privacy and who want to suck up as much data about me as possible. Its difficult sometimes, mentally, but I feel like my life is better without these garbage sites anyway. I now spend more time playing guitar, that I used to spend on the internet.