Very much. I already pay for my self hosted software, I pay for cloud storage, I also pay for various services around the web. I used to pay for medium (when it was good), if my workflow was dependent on a piece of software and I needed to pay to have access to a good support forum, I'd do that too.

I'm grateful for the fact that so many people are open to share their knowledge for free. But even in this case, I'm paying for the internet to visit their websites. And for the amount of information I get from HN, I'd pay for a membership subscription.

One is entitled to add ads to one's webpages. But the computer is mine and I'm totally free to not display them. The same way I'm free to mute my TV and switch channels when the ads start. Or skip forward on the podcast. It's my personal computing/entertainment space, I decide what I'm exposed to.