I might agree with you if we were in a world in which there is little cost to provide lots of high quality information, or maintain a digital library etc. I th

I might agree with you if we were in a world in which there is little cost to provide lots of high quality information, or maintain a digital library etc. I think it's needlessly dismissive to say that a website deserves to die just because it can't survive without ads. Many very niche but high quality websites can't make enough money to support curation and hosting fees, and as such turn to advertisements.