Please do not make the argument that I technically pay for my internet connection and so do in fact pay for ads. Please also do not make the argument that my time is money. It isn’t. I’m not interested in trading my time for money (outside of my day job).
Then you should oppose ads. You are literally trading your time to compensate for content, as opposed to trading your money for content.
I’m trading (part of) my attention and some of my data for content.
> You are literally trading your time to compensate for content
This is literally not trading time for money.
There is literally no difference between that, and selling your time for money and then buying the thing of value. Well, the latter takes two transactions to accomplish the same thing
Other than that you are correct that there is literally no difference between them.