um, no.
Clearly, no one browses the entire internet, so the money is divided among the site you do visit. As would every one.
Subscription service would be a separate agreement.

In theory, anyway

Please stop spreading the myth. Cable TV has never been advertised to be commercial free. NEVER.
Some channels have, like HBO*, but not the company providing the service of having content shipped to your house over cable.

*I don't know if that's still true, but it was when HBO first came out.

I wonder if ad block, et. al. is actually making it worse.
Fewer people get ads, websites need more ads for to make the same money from fewer people. aka, the people without ad block.

All modems are self capping. Unless their is an infinity bandwidth modem I am unaware of.

"paying additional for the privilege of not viewing ads was one of the founding principles behind cable TV"
False. It was the premise of a specialized singe channels, NOT 'cable TV'. Cable TV you are paying for a service NOT content.

if they can detect the ad is not showing.

I miss clothing allowances. OTOH, I do not miss wearing a suit every day.
The first real company I worked for had a clothing allowance, free dry cleaning, and an person office decoration allowance.
In fact, they gave me a bonus after I joined so I could get a couple of 'real' suits when they found out my suits where off the rack from sears.

Companies are foisting the cost of doing business onto there employees.
So it needs to stop. AS we have seen, many times, corporation will demand more and more and they will all start doing it so you won't actually have a choice.

The rest of you post is irrelevant to the discussion.

percentage based.

If they give you the option of using your phone to help them make money, then they are on the hook.
If they don't want to do that, then don't allow person phones for business.

Companies are doing this to foist the cost of doing business onto their employees.

I disagree. His total experience is with one company, during a unique point in history. You can't teach that because nothing else applies.

Anyone in the position he was in would have been able to ride that wave. EVERY product he wanted to happen, and shove through regardless of market, failed.

If the thing Steve Jobs pushed failed, then Yes.

101 - How to keep stocks flat.
102 - Ignoring the market How to spend billion to have a product fail
103 - The most important class - How to get lucky and land at a company just before the stocks rocket due to nothing you've personally done.

Unfortunately, we'll never know. Oh, sure, we'll get an answer of sorts that will alienate a good chunk of the population of the US, but it will be about as reassuring as the Warren Commission report.