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by homebrewer 554 days ago
It's a very "first world" problem. Maybe it would work in the few rich countries the world has, but as someone who lives in a region with the median monthly income of under $300, I can assure you it would be difficult to extract anything over $0 from most of our population because people don't have money to spend on things that can be obtained for free. Many people I know have literally zero cash by the end of the month after all necessities are taken care of. AFAIU, most of the world's population lives something like that, a bit better here, a bit worse there, but still.
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This isn't an issue. You either have the ability to pay the monthly fee (which would probably enable cheaper subscriptions, saving people money), or you can't afford it & you'll experience the same web experience you have now.

For people in lower economic areas, their monthly fee would be relative to the median income (hence the "integrated into your internet bill").

What I'm saying is we have a solution that is being suppressed. It would fix the internet for 80% of people, and the other 20% would experience no downside.