This is actually about pushing Google ads! The idea is clearly that sites are required to have Google ads normally in order to participate in Contributor!
So, this is the opposite of people paying to reduce ads. This is actually a scheme to promote more ads.
People who want to donate to creative work should donate to projects that treat us well by forgoing ads and privacy-invading tracking. Google Contributor is a donation system exclusively for projects that engage in these anti-features. It's a ransom / pay-to-stop-being-annoyed, which means it is rewarding sites for annoying you in the first place.
So, this is the opposite of people paying to reduce ads. This is actually a scheme to promote more ads.
People who want to donate to creative work should donate to projects that treat us well by forgoing ads and privacy-invading tracking. Google Contributor is a donation system exclusively for projects that engage in these anti-features. It's a ransom / pay-to-stop-being-annoyed, which means it is rewarding sites for annoying you in the first place.