Here's an interesting part I'm going to use to illustrate a larger point: > whether those services are free through ads or are entirely paid. It isn't this si

Here's an interesting part I'm going to use to illustrate a larger point: > whether those services are free through ads or are entirely paid. It isn't this simple. I pay for a newspaper, I still get ads. The fact the newsstand price is too low for them to give it to me ad-free isn't really up to me; they don't offer an ad-free option, even at a higher price. Magazines are the same way. So are a lot of premium pay TV channels. So's SiriusXM. My point is, I can't trust them to not run ads. Even if I'm paying them directly, they still have the option to shove ads down my eye-holes. I can't effectively block ads anywhere but online, so that's what I do. Everywhere else, regardless of what I pay, I still get ads.