[DanBC]

No, it's a pretty good analogy.

You're paying for the transport of the bits, you haven't paid for the content of those bits.

The content seems to be good - you chose to use it after all. You could boycott ad-supported content but you chose not to.

(I agree with the rest of what you say btw).

[correcthorse]

If I get a free burger with onions in it and I don't like onions, I won't eat the onions.