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Pretty interesting stuff here.
most people will prefer free over paid so if there is a free option they will take it even if it means ads. however if another free option is to remove or block ads they will choose this path as well. most people don't care about the source receiving revenue, sad but true. they will only care if that source closes down but then that free user will just look somewhere else.
the only real way to counter this is to charge for removing the ads so that the user then has to choose whether to pay to remove them or put up with the ads. an app like adblock will then be required to use part of that revenue to go back to the sources of those ads who pay to have their advertising up.