You can use pihole or pyhole to just block them for your home, then vpn from your phone. No more ads.
Then buy subscription to sites you like.
Dont give google a percentage of everything.
Then buy subscription to sites you like.
Dont give google a percentage of everything.
If sites were to offer an "article bank", it might be more compelling: you put in $X and that buys you Y articles, which you can read over the span of days, months, or years. But no one seems to be doing that, probably because they believe the economics of breakage is better.
Articles on the internet exist primarily as free entertainment.
If I am going to spend money on entertainment, there are much more fulfilling options.
[1] Read: Addiction. :)
My point is not that articles on the internet are useless. But there is a certain tunnel vision in these discussions where we forget there are other _even better_ ways to spend our time.
Whether you want education or entertainment, paying $x/month to Google is not the right way to achieve it. Go paintballing instead.
Credit card processors, the post office, transportation companies. ISPs, kinda.
"A percentage of everything" is another way of saying "in the infrastructure business".