While the internet still exists, it is very quickly becoming a frustration instead of a source of information. The realities of the financial cost of creating content is creating a system where the information available is either saturated with ad content, behind a pay wall, or being supplied by an institution which creates it to advance its viewpoints. While the costs appear tom be nominal, $1 to $10 a month in many cases, it would require an aggregate of many dozen different sources to meet your information requirements. Like it or not, the cost of the New York Times, the wall Street Journal, etc, soon require that after reading a teaser of a few lines, I am forced into the choice of either leaving the site or spending several dollars for a subscription. With my financial choices set, I go back to the previous page or some other method of leaving. I know from the free article offered by the Foreign Policy magazine for example, is well worth reading, but the price of the subscription is beyond my budget when it is among the 20 or so sources that I would like to read. The next choice, using ads to pay for content, has created a system that my internet speed slows down the access to pages until it either stops, often with ad content that has video clips, becomes so distracting that I quit reading, or breaks the article into many different pages with a lot of ads and little information and all kinds of tricks to get you click some ad by mistake. Downloading information has also morphed into a pain,. either the cost is prohibitive for the article, I am not going to pay a dollar an article when I wish to read 20 articles about a topic, I have to subscribe to some organization that sends me 10 emails a day and to get the information I wish, I would have to join 20 organizations, or the site is such that my virus protection will not let me download it. Now the Ministry of Information may well in the future decide that my viewing patterns are a threat to society and it is not worth the risk to visit certain sites. This is even more important in that it now seems that the Constitutional promise to not be charged with a crime when the subject was legal at the time it was done. Sex porn, gun information, etc comes to mind, as well as copy write infringement are examples , you now can be charged for a crime for information on your computer that you either did not know was illegal or which was legal at the time you downloaded it. In addition, more and more of the computers I use are isolated from the internet due to the threat of viruses, ransomware,etc or the company ad blockers and security permissions limit my choices, An example is that while my boss allows me at lunch time to watch the news, I can no longer watch Fox as it and the company policy on ad blocking make it impossible to view it. , etc
There is very little I would ever be inclined to pay to access on the interwebs, so if they are trying to charge me, I click away! There is Nothing worth paying for, especially now days with the ultra left running everything, so, I find everything I ever need through alternate sources!
There are apps out there that can help you get info for free. Not sure on the legality of all of them but do a bit of research and you should be able to find them.
I have been using Starlink since beta with a VPN and it seems to work better than spectrum, Roadrunner, TimeWarner, etc. They have all sent me notices saying they were spying on my internet activity and blocking certain websites they didn't like. Never had that from Starlink.
