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You want free and private internet - Ok You don't want ads - Ok So who is going to give you something for free and why?
Funny as the internet was designed as being free.
Maybe just educate yourself a little. In general, not just about that.
Oh well? I think you should educate yourself a little, it was never designed to be free, it was designed for army for long distance fast and reliable communication, later evolved to be a service, no service is free, providers aren't gods to give you anything for free.
I don't mind ads so much. What I don't want in invasive tracking and collection of every scrap of data they can to push ads on you. Give some dumb ads based on the damned contents of the page and I would be fine. But no, ads is basically a synonym for tracking these days.
People who value the ability to do publish information, or engage in personal expression, for starters.
If you've got no purpose hosting a website, don't. We don't need you.
I knew it will be downvoted, but you have to realize, nothing is free in this world kids, I don't like it too, but it is what it is.
Bro's paying for grep.
posted on social media developed for free using a standard specced out for free running on servers people are allowing you to use for free...
Whether or not current models are sustainable is beside the point. Obviously they aren't, ad blockers weren't developed for shits and giggles but to stop increasingly intrusive practices.
Ok boomer
Plenty of things can be and are free at the point of service/point of consumption/utilization.
That's all they need to be. And there just has to be enough willpower to do that from enough people.
You’re paying for the air you breathe? Lots of things are free. Capitalists who want you to pay for what you shouldn’t will try to convince you otherwise.
This world is what ever we make it, and literally everything we need to live is free, from water to food to shelter. The earth literally just does all that.