I'm good with this. The only rebuttal I ever hear is, well, how are your favorite websites going to stay up if they can't be free? Will you pay for them all?

I'm good with this. The only rebuttal I ever hear is, well, how are your favorite websites going to stay up if they can't be free? Will you pay for them all? And the funny thing is, the websites I use fall into three categories: 1. Free, and super cheap to host, unlikely to be affected by loss of advertising revenue at all (e.g., my hobby blog) 2. Free, and I can live without them easily, because the entire commercialization scheme is inherently destructive to a positive experience(youtube; facebook) 3. Free, but have other commercialization schemes underway or provider their owners with some other sort of value, and would very likely remain viable in their current or similar format without advertising (Penny Arcade; SMBC Comics; Stratechery-ish; H-N; RP online) 4. Non-free (Netflix, medical journals; various patreon-based fora/discord channels/etc.) 1 & 4 are the primary sources of value for me. 2 could disappear overnight and I would barely notice. 3 would either adapt to survive, or die, and the total loss of value to me would be non-zero, but small. So by all means. Kill off the ads. Don't give me any bs about the value of the free internet. It's worth what I paid for it.