We don't want to pay and we don't want to watch ads - still, we want to consume the content. I mean, I get the sentiment, I also share it to a great degree. But how are websites supposed to stay afloat?
1) Anything that was done for monetary gain on the internet was inherently bad and it's no loss if it goes away
2) People will just magically decide to keep creating content out of the goodness of their own hearts
They're not. If no one wants to pay for it then it's not supposed to exist, speaking in terms of how the capitalist system is supposed to work