> If ads didn't exist there effectively there would be a paywall on the internet. This is a false premise. The internet of old, from which the current version

> If ads didn't exist there effectively there would be a paywall on the internet. This is a false premise. The internet of old, from which the current version evolved, had no advertising and yet still contained useful information. In fact, the ratio of useful information to garbage was much higher, so it could be said that with advertising was brought a flood of trash, and so a more informative, useful internet is one without advertising. That's how capitalism works, it brings the con men and scammers and bottom feeders looking to make a quick dollar from the naive and unsuspecting, and if such behaviour can stay under the radar of regulation long enough then it becomes normalised, and otherwise good citizens defend it as 'the only way'.