By asking people to buy what they are selling? If they aren’t selling anything, why the expectation of remuneration?

I don't. I literally don't care about them making money, so I can't propose any method. My problem is that they demand the monetization of the Web and crud up my PC. My solution is 'block everything but text and images.'

That’s not my problem to fix, no proposal is required of me.

Okay, then don't expect anybody to build one. Web browsers are incredibly complex, and nobody is going to build one for free nowadays.

Wait a minute, did I misunderstand? I thought we were talking about how websites would make money, not build browsers. Are you saying that Apple, who doesn’t depend on web advertising AFAICT, wouldn’t build this hypothetical browser because other companies wouldn’t make money? A more macro economic view, then?

>Web browsers are incredibly complex

This is the problem. A much less complex browser, without wasm, without JavaScript, with a simpler DOM... would not be that incredibly complex and expensive to build. So the point is moot.

That's only yet another reason to try and spin off a more user-friendly web, and burn the current thing to the ground.

The web was a pretty exiting place before the suits arrived trying to make money. Hobbyists writing about their passions doesn't require ads. People who can afford a computer to write their blog can also afford the pennies it costs to host a static web site.

They could ask their users. That model seems to be working well. But even if they couldn't make money? Who cares?

The web existed long before it was monetized, and it worked great! Better than now, actually.