X / Twitter does the same: the first paid tier only remove some ads, not all of them. And I don't think that's good. Now there's one way to pay to get way less

X / Twitter does the same: the first paid tier only remove some ads, not all of them. And I don't think that's good. Now there's one way to pay to get way less ads: pay for an AI model and replace a huge percentage of your searches with searches inside the model. They're not bad at that. That's why many are saying that Google is (partially) in trouble with LLMs: wife and I definitely are searching less using search engines than we used too. Besides that I'm running a local DNS server with a brutal blocklist: nearly one million of wildcarded domains (unbound supports wildcards). I block entire TLDs too. Entire countries' IP blocks. Add uBlock origin to the mix and your life becomes pretty ad-free. I'm glad to pay a subscription for an AI model that doesn't serve me any ad. But I won't pay for something that serves me less ads, but still some ads. As simple as that. You want me to pay: serve me zero ad.