Want to live an ad-free life? Here's how much it'll cost you

Advertisements are a necessary nuisance. They help businesses grow and gain exposure. They enable websites to exist. That is why services like Facebook, Google, and YouTube operate free of charge. Yet, nobody likes ads except those who profit from them. They distract us, eat away our time, and try to lure us into buying things we don’t need. They drain batteries and eat up processing power, hurting the performance of even the best Android phones.