Look. I remember what the internet was like before the adtech hegemony was so entrenched. I was happier with my internet experience back then. I legit do not

Look. I remember what the internet was like before the adtech hegemony was so entrenched. I was happier with my internet experience back then. I legit do not care if every service on the internet that relies on ads ceased. If it all went away tomorrow, I'd be fucking fine. Sure, I'd have to find something to occupy my time that isn't Daily Youtube Binge, but that'd be a /healthy/ outcome for me. I'm fine with going back to paying 5 bucks a month to self-host content I want to share. The newstertainment industry with all their paywalls don't actually provide much value to my life, and if they went away, I'd be fine as well, and so would you (probably?). I'm fine with paying 5 dollars a month for a reliable search engine, too. I've been collecting the patreons of every youtube channel I follow and pretty quick here I'm going to be setting aside part of my monthly budget to it. Supporting healthy monetization schemes is part of my beliefs. Hell, I'd be 100% happy to participate in a good-faith attempt to charge me a small fee PER ARTICLE I READ (similar to how I was happy to pay for music when it became possible to buy individual tracks and not entire albums), but the industry collectively failed to grab its sac and make that change already, so I don't care about them or how Kantian philosophy applied to what I believe would ruin their way of life. That is, in fact, the point. Adtech is amoral, and it disgusts me how we've normalized it to the point we have.