I have links set to open in a private firefox tab, then reader mode or whatever it’s called generally avoids all of the popups, paywalls & spaces where ads would be without ad blockers while letting you read the whole thing.

That’s basically what happened in Australia’s last election. The Liberals were trying to play up culture war shit & wanted to emulate DOGE, and it backfired hard. I was waiting to lock up a polling place for the night in Western Australia which is a couple of hours behind the eastern states, by the time they’d finished packing up the votes to be counted it was already so lopsided that even if every remaining vote was Liberal it wouldn’t have mattered.