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> it's the only wildly prevalent, fairly minimal hassle way to make micro-payments to a service/content I'm benefiting from.

To see the absurdity of this position just replace "view ads" with the following:

I would stop content creators from breaking into my home and taking money from my wallet in the middle of the night, but I don't because it's the only wildly prevalent, fairly minimal hassle way to make micro-payments to a service/content I'm benefiting from.

It is not the responsibility of consumer to accept harmful practices because they're the only practices in broad use.