It is solved. You can pay Brave to not be shown ads.

And the website gets paid either way.

How else are you going to pay the people writing articles, creating content and doing research?

Not every person/site can run on Patreon or sponsorship deals. And paywalling a lot of the web would exclude vast swathes of people.

1. With ads, I don't pay people writing articles, creating content or doing research.

2. "How else would you achieve X than by manipulating people visiting your website into paying for things they probably don't need, and be misinformed and tracked by powerful commercial and political entities?" - I can but shrug at this question.

3. The vast majority of written content is never rewarded or compensated monetarily, ads or no ads.

> With ads, I don't pay people writing articles, creating content or doing research.

You do. The ad broker sells access to your eyeballs to a company, and then gives part of that money to whichever parties have a monetization agreement in the content.

> "How else would you achieve X than by manipulating people visiting your website into paying for things they probably don't need, and be misinformed and tracked by powerful commercial and political entities?" - I can but shrug at this question.

Always fun to see people with strong opinions be critically misinformed.

Brave’s ads don’t have tracking, by design.

> The vast majority of written content is never rewarded or compensated monetarily, ads or no ads.

By that logic we should stop paying for art?

People who have something meaningful to say usually do it anyway.

The others can shut up.

Research is usually not paid by ads.

Some of the best scientists did it for fun. Einstein wrote his 1905 papers while working at the swiss patent office.