I wish advertising didn’t exist. Not just on the internet, but everywhere else too.
Ads encourage people to buy stuff they probably don’t need. They incentivize clickbait and tracking. And most online advertising is probably a waste of money anyways. [1]
How then, you might ask, will content and services be paid for?
Sponsorships are not a solution for the same reasons.
The Brave browser is not a solution. [2]
I think the solution is to pay for everything with donations and crowdfunding. This model incentivizes doing what’s beat for the end-user. Great examples of this include Wikipedia and the Internet Archive.
If ads were banned, many websites would die, and I would be ok with that. Only the ones that are the best for users would survive.
[1] https://thecorrespondent.com/100/the-new-dot-com-bubble-is-h...