Seems more taking a plant to your house while knowing it will listen to you, while there is plant that won't listen to you but that you have to pay for.

That listening device is the cost of the plant... don't like it? Then pay to avoid it...

It's that simple, there's no alternative. They have to pay to make that content and send it to you. If it's not advertising that pay for it, that cash won't appear out of thin air. Someone needs to pay for it and if it's not an advertiser that does, it needs to be you.

There's plenty of news agency that offer paid membership without ads, go for them.

There's plenty of people that can't afford to pay or that just doesn't have the means to. I remember the amount of content I was able to learn because advertising was subsidizing it. My parent were sadly against paying on the internet and I'm far from being the only one that learned that way.

I don’t think I would like that at all.