Are you aware how many requests pages make simply by visiting them? Hae you ran a DNS server and seen how many third-party sites get hit simply by visiting one news page, for example?
I would rather have more control over what gets scraped from who-knows-where and ran on my machine than not.
Why does this matter in the context of this discussion?
If you choose to visit that news site, you're trusting their web developers. You can always manually go and setup tools and systems to block those 3rd party requests (like I mentioned earlier, an ad blocker is a great first step, because it's easy and automatic). If you're not willing to take those steps...
I would rather have more control over what gets scraped from who-knows-where and ran on my machine than not.