First contradiction: "you will never" and "With the way the world currently works". Which is it?
Second contradiction: "you will not escape ads by paying for your content" and "So the more you pay to keep ads away, the more advertisers will pay to put them back in." No. If you are paying for your content, by definition there are no ads. If advertisers outbid you and get ads into the product, then by the definition you are only partially paying for the content. To maintain your "I pay for my content" status you would demand the ads be removed or stop consuming from that publisher.
And no, the solution isn't to make advertising illegal. It is to render it irrelevant, impotent, wasted money. We achieve that with:
- a reliable fully crowdsourced independent recommendation system that consumers can base purchase decisions on, allowing them to reject ads as biased at best, manipulation and lies more often.
- a movement where people stop using any ad-supported products[1], realizing that said products are not only not free, they are more expensive[2].
- shifting all the greatest minds of our generation from working on getting people to click ads[3] to figuring out micropayments, crowdfunding or an entirely new model to make the web accessible to all, without ads.
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[1] Don't Be A Free User: https://blog.pinboard.in/2011/12/don_t_be_a_free_user/
[2] Advertising makes nothing free: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8585237
[3] "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks." – Jeff Hammerbacher, fmr. Manager of Facebook Data Team, founder of Cloudera