Microtransactions are the real answer to this, and the article glosses over them — perhaps because it’d require stating how evil the credit card companies are and how they’ve made this obvious solution nearly untenable.

No, I won’t look at malware-ridden ads but I will be glad to pay a nickel to read that NYT article, etc.

Microtransactions with strict limits and clear costs are the way the internet could be a thousand times better.

(Yes, I know it’ll never happen. But still.)