I remain unconvinced by the entire premise. Advertisers tell us that only ads can provide quality content on the internet, because people need to be paid if th

I remain unconvinced by the entire premise. Advertisers tell us that only ads can provide quality content on the internet, because people need to be paid if they are to make quality content. But there was lots of quality content on the internet before ads became a thing, because people who make good content tend to want to share it. Most of it is still up and available, and ad free. So google is saying they want to sell my eyeballs, for profit. Ad block plus responds by offering to protect my eyeballs from google, for profit. Now google responds with the contributor program, offering me a way to protect my eyeballs while giving the profit to google rather then ad block plus. How about everyone just leaves my eyeballs alone? If the cost of that is websites like cracked closing down, see if I give a damn.