Take a moment to consider how expensive and exclusive access to the internet was "back in the good ol' days" and maybe you'll be able to connect the dots. If you still can't there's nothing I can do for you sorry.
You might be arguing that privileged people make better websites, or implying that the other person is saying that, or some variant, or...?
mindslight is not saying we should revert everything back to those days, such as the internet being expensive and exclusive. They want sites to stop using ad revenue. Those two things are not tied together. Unless you're arguing they are tied together, in which case again you need to explain yourself.
I can infer several arguments that you could hope to be implying. But I'm not going to guess at the specific one you're trying to make just to argue with myself.
In general: Correlation is not causation. As I said, the quality of information was orthogonal to who could access it. And furthermore, even in modern times advertising does not pay for Internet access nor computing devices.
Sure, we can say that affording Internet access (gear) is a form of privilege. What bearing does that have on what I said?