This is often touted as the solution to remove SEO garbage, except that you'd also get rid of the news websites along with it which are fairly reliant on advertising.

> This is often touted as the solution to remove SEO garbage, except that you'd also get rid of the news websites along with it which are fairly reliant on advertising.

That's fine; those who want to search for news articles can use any number of existing search engines that don't penalise ads.