[nemomarx]

Do you want to click through and spend money on the ads?

If not you aren't really working towards them paying a lot for ads, right?

[gruez]

>Do you want to click through and spend money on the ads?

Nobody "wants" ads, but they do want the free content they get today, which are funded by ads.

[curtisblaine]

Nobody asked for free content. It was pushed on us so they could track us. Before the Internet, you normally paid for what you consumed (at least, more than now. And before that even more).

[cm2012]

Newspapers, network tv, etc has been subsidized by ads for 100 years+

[curtisblaine]

And for the most part of this time period they weren't free.

[Ajedi32]

Maybe? Depends on what the ads are for. Obviously I'm not going to buy something I don't actually want just to support the site I'm on, but I have no particular objection to buying something I discovered through an ad if it's something I would buy anyway if I discovered it organically.