There are millions of ad-free sites already -- they're called blogs. But you'll see that the more popular blogs almost always at least have Google ads or something. Even if the content producers aren't trying to make a living off the site, the hosting costs go up as you need more bandwidth for that traffic. It's very hard to make it on subscriptions or donations alone.

Long before the Internet took off, ad revenue was responsible for funding most of the content you would read. Hey, at least 90 percent of the income I've made in my career has come from ads. Before the Internet, people didn't get upset about the ads in newspapers and magazines, except for the occasional obnoxious one, because they could ignore them or not as they chose. So why do people get so upset about ads on the Internet which, except for the occasional obnoxious one, they are still perfectly free to ignore? It really does puzzle me, so I'd love to hear folks thoughts on this.

Ed

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