> Do companies have the right to serve advertisements in exchange for consumption of their content? They have the right to put whatever they want into the page

> Do companies have the right to serve advertisements in exchange for consumption of their content? They have the right to put whatever they want into the page as the author of the content. The realities of the Web and HTML being what they are make avoiding advertising quite trivial, especially when the advertisements are large video or image files. If you want to serve advertisements that are less than trivial to block then the future of that is likely going to be either native advertisement where the entire story/content piece is the advertisement or advertisement bound directly into the final story and served as a single request. You have the right to be on the street corner yelling your paranoid conspiracy theories at people. They have the right to ignore you.