[sandworm101]

Pay Google? Pay a billion-dollar company to not do something?

So, going forward, it will be in Google's interest to make ads ever more annoying and creepy so that people are pushed into paying to end the pain. That is not a world in which I want to live.

How about this: Google pays me for watching their annoying ads. Given that I have the upper hand on the tech front (adblockers) and am the one buying the products, shouldn't I be the one being paid?

[dajonker]

Don't forget that Google is a billion-dollar company primarily because they sell a lot of ads. Why do you think Google Search, Gmail, Google Maps, etc. are free to use? Because they make a lot of money (from ads), so they can hire the best developers to build awesome tools that (almost) everybody loves. They could stop doing ads altogether and instead just ask money for using all Google products directly, but it'd just be really expensive, and people usually don't like to pay for stuff they think should be free.

[riyadparvez]

No, some people think every company on internet owe them free service. I use ad-blockers too; but I do not whine out of entitlement. This is the reason I hate ad related discussions - full of entitlements and whinings.