I liked the old internet where people posted content out of passion not for money. The quality has suffered and many think they have a right to get paid.

Probably there is even more content like that as there are more people in the internet. But we can't find the good content in the mountain of trash that we are drowning in. EDIT: can -> can't

It doesn't really help that the biggest search engine is also the biggest ad provider. Not exactly a great incentive to surface ad-free content.

Blame existing in an universe where evolution (that is, proliferation of whoever survives) happens.