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So what are you saying exactly? That the internet needs a government that taxes its users in order to build websites that do not need ads for profiting? All this circle-jerk against ads is fine if there was some viable alternative; but unfortunately not everyone can live of selling over-priced smartphones like Apple does so internet ads came to exist after internet was created just like TV ads came to exist after the TV was created.

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I'm not convinced it's worth investing in a response based on the extremes you applied to your statement. It seems you see no middle ground, so this issue involves circle jerks or over-priced smartphones.

But the short answer is that I'm irritated by how ads have become the focus and content has become the excuse to get people to see the ads. Ever gone through a magazine like that? Where the articles and such are all just fluff so they can call it a magazine, but really it's just a book of ads.

Netflix, is a response to, among other things, TV commercials and 30 minutes of ads before a movie at a theatre. I think Internet ads are going the same way. Clearly people don't want them. Clearly efforts to hide ads are having a serious impact to the bottom line. So content providers need to evolve. I like the Patreon model a lot.

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