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Are you willing to pay for every website you visit? Oh yeah, you don't think you should pay for anything. Somehow money goes on trees for the websites owners, how dare they try to monetize their investments!

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Again, why should i pay for every website i visit? Are all of them paid? Why do i have to accept erotic intrusive popups if my kids play around on the internet all day long? Do i have to let my experience and time be wasted and clogged by malware and auto playing videos?

Every website costs someone money. Someone's paying for the server. Someone's paying for the bandwidth and hosting. Every time you access a site you're using up someone's finite budget. Obviously, this is a dramatic simplification because some pockets are deeper than others, but I believe it's generally true - whether or not all of them are 'paid', all of them still have to be paid for.

So then the question is not whether ads are harmful or intrusive or downright malicious sometimes (they can be), but what better model is there to pay for the resources than advertising or direct fees?

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