Personally I don't think takedowns are the biggest threat facing cloud users. By far the larger threat is having your cloud data harvested and used against you by adversaries such as advertising firms and three-letter agencies.
Github project: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/
Servers go down every day, and data centers go down every month. This project solves a real problem.
Maybe you'll come back with a completely-bogus, typical hackernews-ish response, deluding yourself, saying that yes you like it when advertisers target you based on the data they collect about you because of reasons X Y and Z, something something "better for me". Ads targeted at you do not benefit you in any way unless you work for an advertising firm.
And are you seriously arguing that NSA et al do not peek into cloud storage? Have you been living under a rock?
They mean I don't have to pay every website that generates content in order to have them...you know...exist.
Economics is not a hard subject. Stop being a reductivist. Or stop being a sneering jerk (and let's not pretend you aren't trying to pick a fight with your tone, 'kay?). Both not-reductivist and not-sneering-jerk would be nice, though.
You don't pay value. You pay a price, which provides value to the recipient. And the value received by the site being low does not mean the price is, since they're both subjective. Which is the problem with ads: for many, the price paid - the loss in privacy - is much greater than the pennies received by the advertiser. I'm glad you value your loss so low, but you shouldn't assume everyone does.
Besides, privacy is like vaccination - it also needs herd immunity. If everyone is exposed, the few "important" people who really need it will stand out like a sore thumb.
Nobody cares.
In any case, it's not every day people are given the choice. There's probably a handful of sites you can pay to remove ads, and the cost is usually much higher than the value the user would have provided in ad revenue.