The argument appears to be about whether to block adverts and whether this is ethical or not. The real reason for adverts is to pay for the site and its content

The argument appears to be about whether to block adverts and whether this is ethical or not. The real reason for adverts is to pay for the site and its content. I think the real argument should be about how we pay for content on a site and how to solve that problem instead of arguing about the adverts. Why didn't HTTP 402 ever take off?