It would be better to support the sites you use by paying for them without an advertising middleman[1]. If only we all focused on solving this direct payment p

It would be better to support the sites you use by paying for them without an advertising middleman[1]. If only we all focused on solving this direct payment problem[2] instead of actually actively working to further embed the advertising industry[3]. Sadly my comments along these lines always get downvoted because, as Upton Sinclair said, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7485773 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7485773 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8008337 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8008337 [3] "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks." – Jeff Hammerbacher, fmr. Manager of Facebook Data Team, founder of Cloudera