Not GP, but I don't block youtube and I block most other stuff (because uBlock Origin blocks be default). Google is probably the most likely to track more info about me, but it's also obvious that the ads played factor into the money the content creators get, and I felt bad after a while of blocking their revenue stream.

It's also got me really close to paying for YouTube red, which is the other option,and o e I wouldn't consider without the annoyance of ads.

It's a wide variety of sites. Local news, tech news, science mags, other special interest sites, porn, discussion forums, Q&A sites, some social media. It's impossible to list them all.

Essentially, it's the great variety of what's available on the open Web that I don't want to lose. I don't want everything to become one big app store with all its suffocating narrow-mindedness and oppressive control freakery.

Yeah, that makes sense.

Would be way too hard to solve something like that with subscriptions.

Maybe one day, concepts like Brave Rewards or Google Contributor[0] will actually work... No idea what it'd take for those to reach critical mass, maybe government intervention.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Contributor