[Gustomaximus]

The problem with this is there are increasing a large number of services that require a subscription.

We may end up facing the choice to page huge sums to have wide/diverse information access or only have access to a small silo'ed news/entertainment we choose to pay for.

So while we love to hate on ad driven internet, this helps keep a wide access available.

No idea what the right answer is holistically, but "Spend the 40¢ a day to pay for it, Jesus." fails to consider the wider enviroment of where the internet is going.