[Porsche-O-Phile]

I would much rather see the industry adopt a pay-for-content model similar to what’s happening with television. An ad-based model subjects the end user to a bunch of garbage they’re likely not interested in and can often have nothing to do with (the opposite of!) what the site they’re trying to access is all about, whereas a pay-for-content model rewards the content provider for providing the desired content and provides a direct indicator of how much something is valued. It’s those pesky free market laws... If there’s demand for something, people will pay for it. If not, they won’t. There’s simply no getting around it and I’m not convinced advertising works at all - I can’t think of a time I’ve chosen peoduct “x” over product “y” because some marketing schlocker gave me a sales pitch. If anything, they tend to elicit a passive-aggressive response and turn me off to their products for annoying me. If there isn’t enough demand to support something directly, perhaps it should be allowed to wither and die.