> Pay to get rid of the ads, pay for fewer pages to click through, pay for less of whatever annoys you? I don't know. It seems to me I could save a lot of money

> Pay to get rid of the ads, pay for fewer pages to click through, pay for less of whatever annoys you? I don't know. It seems to me I could save a lot of money, and a lot of time with a completely different solution: ditch the service entirely. It's not that we don't need their functionality. The point is, we come for the basic solution, but we're flooded with a whole ecosystem which is far from the core functionality we seek. I could loosely compare the 'paying for less' idea to sportified versions of road cars - there are a lot of such examples in the automotive industry, where a more expensive version is the one where producers got rid of all unnecessary items and instead boosted only the core values - power, speed, handling, weight loss (Porsche GT3RS, BMW M3 CSL, Mercedes Black Series, and lots of others). And you get what you really want - you didn't get rid of the car, you got a faster better handling car without 4-zone a/c and 2 speakers instead of 16. Not a direct example, but you get the point: sometimes less can be worth more. Summary: the annoyances are there because they need it, maybe if we paid them, they wouldn't be there.