Given the option of keeping the existing model (free and subject to advertising and data mining) or the model that you describe ($25/year but no advertising or data mining), I'm convinced that there are very few people (in my set of "friends", at least) who would pay up.
The majority of my (very diverse) circle of friends simply don't care. Some of them act like they do, but they don't care enough to pay $25/year to stop it from happening. The exceptions are mostly tech/I.T. people like myself. Much like the NSA spying in general, the average person just doesn't seem to give a damn.
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> So if the US would agree to pay $25/year ...
Given the option of keeping the existing model (free and subject to advertising and data mining) or the model that you describe ($25/year but no advertising or data mining), I'm convinced that there are very few people (in my set of "friends", at least) who would pay up.
The majority of my (very diverse) circle of friends simply don't care. Some of them act like they do, but they don't care enough to pay $25/year to stop it from happening. The exceptions are mostly tech/I.T. people like myself. Much like the NSA spying in general, the average person just doesn't seem to give a damn.