Contributor : a paid alternative to ads from google

Using Google Contributor costs just $1 (£.64, AU1.16) to $3 (£1.91, AU$3.47) per month, and a portion of the money goes directly to websites you visit that are within the Contributor network.

And when you visit those websites, all the Google ads you'd normally see are hidden, replaced by pixelated "thank you" messages.

For one thing this obviously only applies to Google ads, since Google can't force other advertisers to remove their own ads as well.

And the number of participating websites, including Urban Dictionary, The Onion, Science Daily, wikiHow, Mashable, and imgur, is currently small.

"Today's internet is mostly funded by advertising," Google's introduction for Contributor reads. "But what if there were a way to directly support the people who create the sites you visit each day?"