> 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".

I actually don't. I very much want to pay for something. But Google has wedged itself throughout the entire Internet.

I've been looking into paid options, but it is not easy to move from Google because they have stacked the web in their favor.