Comment by bsder

> The problem isn't Google.

Wrong. Google is very much the problem. If Google had not been allowed to buy YouTube, for example, YouTube and Google would have had to compete with one another.

> The problem is that people want a "free internet" without ads, and without any form of data harvesting. But they also don't want to pay any money, because the internet, as we all know, "is free".

We have evidence against. Several video sites were taking payments back before YouTube became dominant (especially the Japanese ones, for example). YouTube squashed them all by being "free" not by being "better".