'Pay to remove ads' is such an awful insidious now common phrase. Give us money or else we'll do this to you. If you don't pay us, we will control your experience. We will force ourselves upon you unless you meet our demands. Modern day protection racket.
@TheBreadmonkey Most of the time it really means “pay to stop us tracking and profiling you for ads” which is horrendous. I’m a lot more relaxed with the idea of being shown generic ads than targeted ads.
Again, I’m convinced that the ads don’t actually work to make people buy things and that this whole industry’s business case is built on sand.