The subscription is not to get rid of ads, it's to allow access past the N free articles per month. I used to pay for someone to throw a newspaper in my drivew

The subscription is not to get rid of ads, it's to allow access past the N free articles per month. I used to pay for someone to throw a newspaper in my driveway. They still had ads. In fact when I stopped paying, they still threw the newspaper, so they could say to their ad auditors that they had N viewers of ads.