Bullshit. I guarantee you that if tomorrow, by some regulatory or technological magic, the vast majority of invasive ads were eliminated from online content and

Bullshit. I guarantee you that if tomorrow, by some regulatory or technological magic, the vast majority of invasive ads were eliminated from online content and platforms, creators of content would still find ways to deliver the goods, simple because the interest would be there. This would happen even if people showed an enormously strong tendency of not paying for subscription offers. Before ads and ad "partners" became as pervasively parasitic as they are today, there was still plenty of fine content available online, much of it free of charge, and even now, many platforms exist that offer the same, or at least keep their ad systems unobtrusive to users. Also, as another comment below mentions, even when you do pay, many platforms still bombard you with ad garbage, or create frankly abusive bullshit like paid tiers in which you still can't opt out of ads. Looking at you and many others Netflix.