Well in their defense, the Go plan is a lot cheaper. I hate ads and actively avoid them, and I pay the "ad free" tier when it's available, but the alternative is probably no Go plan at all. Maybe that's better, but I would guess there are people willing to trade some ads for a cheaper sub
If you are looking for one canonical, authoritative source to declare something absolutely for you, you will never find it. No such thing exists for any matter. That is a myth of the internet and people raised on it.
>If you are looking for one canonical, authoritative source to declare something absolutely for you, you will never find it
Even if we treat your source as canonical and authoritative, , it doesn't answer the question I was asking. It only answers a slightly different question of "what was the first instance of a paid advertisement in an American newspaper?", which obviously is going to be American.
>But did you know that the first time a paid advertisement appeared in an American newspaper it happened here in Boston?
The classified ads section in a newspaper is valuable, and you can discard it. (If you meant ads stuffed around articles: yes, that annoys me, but I'm also not familiar enough with the papers that do that to name one.)
Umm... remember how people in late last century used to pay $30-50/month for cable TV that was at least 25% ads by volume? And that's in last century dollars, comparable to $100 today.