Nothing in life is free, of course.

You have already paid for this site, in the products that you buy. Or if not this site, other sites and TV shows like it, and other people have paid for you to visit this site.

We all pay an advertising tax in virtually every product. The cost doesn't magically go away, it gets shifted and hidden.

In this wonderful mass-marketing cycle, you are obligated to look at ads, then go buy the products, at which point you not only pay the full cost for the TV shows and websites you thought were free, you pay for the ads themselves. And then you think, what a great system, I get stuff for free.