So much of the economy of the web is built upon advertising, a tedious way of paying that becomes more costly as your time becomes more valuable. It's so tedio

So much of the economy of the web is built upon advertising, a tedious way of paying that becomes more costly as your time becomes more valuable. It's so tedious and costly that there are legions of people building products to bypass this payment and giving it away for free. Does this sound like a healthy economy? Not only is the foundation weak, but the advertisers themselves are really, really poor at actually delivering relevant advertising. If 25% of every ad that I saw led me to a product that made my life genuinely easier and/or more enjoyable, I wouldn't mind seeing them, would I? Instead I most prominently see ads for a product or service that I've just paid for, or their competition. Too late? With all the money being spent on marketing I'm disappointed they can't do better. And worse still, there are people (and machines) flooding what was once a useful internet full of knowledge with worse copies of that knowledge, sometimes algorithmically scrambled and riddled with affiliate links. Too much information! Some good and some very bad. We're in a bad state, and advertising has a lot to do with it, in my opinion.