For several decades ...
... I had a subscription to 3 newspapers (San Jose Mercury News, San Francisco Chronicle, WSJ). They took up my morning coffee time. I read them for the news, and quite frankly I don't remember any advertising as it was irrelevant to my needs.
Round about 1995, I dropped the WSJ. I no longer felt it was necessary ... but I kept the two local papers. I dropped the Chronicle a year or so later. And finally, in late 1998 I dropped the Mercury. Two local TV news stations took up the load for local stuff, and TehIntraWebTubes kept me up to date on World and Business news. All three papers called and tried to get me to resubscribe over the next several years, but as I always said, why on earth would I want to read yesterday's news today, on dead trees, when I had already read it yesterday online ... or watched it happen on a live TV broadcast.
And that's pretty much where I am today. Two local news channels on TV (KTVU and KGO ... although KGO is becoming un-interesting (to me), focusing more on touchy-feely human interest stories than actual news, and so usually gets turned off), and the rest online.
One thing is still consistent with the old three-papers-per-day habit ... I still don't remember any of the advertising. On the TV, I fast-forward through commercials (deferred viewing), and online, I'm a hard-core add blocker. As for alphagoo ... I drop all their IP space on the floor. They have nothing I need or want to see anywhere in their space. (Although I'll admit to eyeballing YouTube occasionally through an anonymizing VPN).