You paid for your hardware. But did you pay for all the services you use (like search engines, games, mail, other services)?

If not, how do you think they should make money?

(I don't like ads myself).

> If not, how do you think they should make money?

Figure it out or go bankrupt, for all I care. They're the ones who chose a business model directly adversarial to their users.

Plenty of games, mail and other services work without ads already, I'm sure if we're one day lucky enough to see Google go belly up someone will fill that hole as well.