Value of random website that I click on: $0.01

Potential losses from drive-by-download or other malicious content served by an ad-network: -$30000.00

Not if I have to allow untested 3rd party Javascript / malware onto my system. No thank you.

Not through ads displayed in my browser. There are other ways to get paid, though.

So content displayed through browser should be behind a paywall then? What if the solution is ads blocked for a fee?

Would you prefer a paywall? Seriously asking

No I prefer everything to be free, open source, organic, and made by volunteers. You can stop pretending that there are only two options.

Obviously there are more than two options, but I'm asking about your preference between those two. You can give me a ranking of order of preference for all the different options you can think of if you prefer, but I'm mostly interested where paywalls fall in relation to ads.