Invisible, indeed. My interest timed out before any such corporation was named. It was kind of interesting watching the layout dynamically rearrange itself over and over.
If this isn't readable on a recent Android phone with a decent net connection then who are these articles for anyway?
The page renders absolutely fine even with JS disabled on my iPhone: just vanilla HTML and CSS.
Maybe try disabling JS on your phone. I can't imagine what could have caused the problems you describe on this site; TechCrunch still practices progressive enhancement.
It used to be common knowledge that code written on fast computers would only work well on fast computers, but the current generation of cloud developers has forgotten that. I'm sorry and I share your pain. This site jumped around like crazy rendering on my 1.7Ghz dual core phone with 1GB ram running android lollipop.
One odd thing I have noticed is that desktop builds work fine even when crosscompiled for arm machines with the same specs. There must be some memory management inefficiency in android that causes this. Since people just chuck their devices in the bin every two years, no one seems inclined to fix it. There has been some talk of a universal way to run desktop linux (arm builds, of course) on a android kernel, so I have hope for that.
I could be wrong, but I doubt that "recent" phone would be a referring to anything near a flagship phone's specs. You're what, 8 cores and 4GB ram? They still sell single core phones with less than a gig of ram.
Don't know what's wrong with your phone, but it was one of the faster loading sites I've been to in iOS - loaded pretty much instantly with no relayout for me. (iPhone 6s)
If this isn't readable on a recent Android phone with a decent net connection then who are these articles for anyway?