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If this is truly what you want, then what is your suggestion for financing the existence of sites that wish to stay afloat? Paywalls don't work.


Wikipedia doesn't have ads or paywalls.


It absolutely has ads, for a few weeks every year, for itself.


Those are solicitations for donations. Wikipedia isn’t selling anything.


people tautologically define ads as only that which they don't wish to see


Paywalls don't work? Tell that to the WSJ, the NYT, Netflix, Disney, and so on. They all do just fine.




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