"Offer a paid option such that consumers who want to pay for privacy / less ads / no ads can." I've pushed for this for a long time. Google and Facebook could

"Offer a paid option such that consumers who want to pay for privacy / less ads / no ads can." I've pushed for this for a long time. Google and Facebook could do this. An annual fee tied to whatever minimum amount they make per user in ads makes all their services private for that user. They can even run the same stacks on different machines stored in different DB's for further isolation. Won't cost them much of anything extra given their existing datacenters and management software. Drop in the bucket. Might also have benefit of a sure thing vs advertisers whims. That would take us back to a clear choice for consumers of being the customer or the product. We could vote with our wallet. I'm sure most would vote to be the product but the number of paying customers (esp businesses) should be significant.