Re: That's silly
Ad funded is not the same as free.
That's true. But since businesses have finite and usually pre-set advertising budgets, the marginal cost of advertising to you and I is very close to zero. And therefore, if you get something from Google, you're not paying anything extra for it in cash. In terms of privacy, yes you're "paying extra", but there's no additional financial cost added to the products you buy, since the budgets would have been set and frittered anyhow, were Google not present.