> But there has to be an alternative so that advertising can continue to hold up the internet and keep it freely accessible. Sure, the alternative is paid site

> But there has to be an alternative so that advertising can continue to hold up the internet and keep it freely accessible. Sure, the alternative is paid sites and free (user created and supported) sites. This is what existed for decades before the web, and for the first decade of the the web. It was a better, safer, more democratic net - one orientated around information, education and self expression rather than persuasion and commerce. If you don't miss it, it's likely because you never experienced it. Advertising is literally a rebranding of propaganda, it consumes our attention, readjusts our values, blights usability, and sways us from rational, connected individuated thinking and decision making - toward conformist, manipulated, consumptive decision making. It's a cultural blight.