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by nine_k 2765 days ago
See https://contributor.google.com/ which offers almost exactly this.

It's $5/mo even for the limited list of sites participating (already $60/mo). I suppose removing ads everywhere by paying web sites the amount advertisers from all networks pay them would cost several times as much.
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the_snooze 2765 days ago
It's a sensible way of having content creators get paid, but I'm not particularly comfortable with Google watching what websites I visit, which is necessary so they can dole out the cash.

What's worked for me is a combination of aggressive ad-and-tracker-blocking and subscribing to the print versions of content I enjoy.

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crooked-v 2765 days ago
That seems worse than just a pay-per-page model, because it's pay-per-page AND you have to put money up front.
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